Armie Hammer is preparing to return to Hollywood with one of the worst directors of all time

As anyone with a social media account knows, there are many celebrities, artists and public figures who have fallen from grace these days, their reputations and careers falling under the banner of that ill-fated term “canceled.” “While this term is often used incorrectly, people who have actually been shunned from the limelight they once enjoyed often deserve their fate so richly, that any attempt at a return must be very delicate and good.” – Considered one.

Time and time again, The Canceled continues to make strange, creepy, and unwelcome mistakes as they awkwardly struggle to regain the reputation they have since lost (see: Spacey, Kevin, and his bizarre annual Frank Underwood videos). Today, we can add Armie Hammer to that unfavorable list of actors looking to make a comeback in Hollywood by joining a project that wouldn’t be a good fit in any capacity, let alone a disgraced celebrity. According to Variety, Hammer has signed on to star in the film titled “The Dark Knight.” (Gosh, I wonder what wool the producers are trying to grab the audience’s attention over there), which is about, surprise, surprise, a vigilante who fights crime. Even more embarrassing than the project’s reminiscences of some Christopher Nolan classics is the fact that the film was written and directed by Uwe Boll, The notorious German director whose films generally no one enjoys.

Of course, this pairing makes some sense when you think about it, as Paul has continued his film career almost relentlessly despite how much his work is despised, and Hammer’s recent comments seem to have a tone of hostility towards them. , also. Really, working as a team isn’t a huge surprise; The real question is whether two wrongs can lead to a right.

Here’s the thing: throughout the history of cinema, there have always been blowhards, hucksters, exploitation filmmakers, those people who want to get seats in the seats by any unscrupulous means possible. The difference between the kind of garbage they tend to make and Paul’s output is that the former actually wants to entertain people, whereas Paul seems to despise his work and the audience. Even a movie that should have been a collection of last-century cheese, 2005’s “BloodRayne,” was hampered by Paul’s verbal abuse of screenwriter Jennifer Turner, putting her first draft script into production, and then allowing actors and others to change the script. While shooting at will, According to this interview with Turner. Add to this questionable work ethic Paul’s now-infamous practice of antagonizing (if not outright fighting) his critics, and you can see that this is not the art Paul cares about.

Apparently, Hammer is interested now Paul’s method of hostilityMaking a movie out of spite more than anything else. Signing into “The Dark Knight” it feels like Hammer is receiving a strange kind of retaliation for the rumors that he He may have already played Batman when George Miller was directing “Justice League.” In all seriousness, there was a time when Hammer could have been a legitimate Batman contender, having made films like “The Social Network” and “The Man from UNCLE” before sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against him in 2021. Now, he’s happy to join in To Paul in a film that, according to Variety, is about a man named Sanders who “takes justice into his own hands as he sets out to hunt down criminals,” in which the vigilante becomes a social media hero despite being sought by the authorities. To stop his actions.

If this sounds too close to the plot of Nolan’s The Dark Knight, producer Michael Roach claims that “our film is very different from Chris Nolan’s, so there’s no risk of confusion.” This is a lot of nonsense, of course. Stitching up confusion is exactly what these fellows hope to do. At the very least, given Paul’s reputation and Hammer’s rapid descent into mediocrity (if not obscurity), we probably won’t need to worry about confusing anyone when it comes to the quality of this cinematic bonanza they call a movie when it’s finally released. . If they intend to try to stir up controversy and hostility, the best retaliation is not to respond to insults, but to simply ignore their noise. Don’t call it a comeback. They haven’t really been here in years.