Armie Hammer has been nearing stardom for quite sometime, and it looks like he has finally arrived. In 2007 he was cast in George Miller's
Justice League as Bruce Wayne/Batman, but the film never got off the ground.
After his success in
The Social Network he landed the plumb role of The Lone Ranger which will also star Johnny Depp, but that too almost didn't get made. Now the project is back on after Disney and directer Gore Verbinski made some highly publicized budget cuts.
That's an interesting role. How do you prepare to play The Lone Ranger?
Well, my researcher is prepping again. She's looking up Texas Ranger lore and Texas history and locations that are in the movie that I want to know about. What the general population would know in the day -- how informed were they? How did they get their news? What sort of education would this guy have? All of those things. So, really, a lot of stuff. I'm excited about getting into it.
You might want to stay away from the 1981 movie 'The Legend of the Lone Ranger.'
[Laughs] Yeah, right! That was the real lame one. Yeah, yeah.
Why are there two Snow White movies coming out next year?
There are two Snow White movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions. They go, "Oh, they just had success with that movie, so we'll do a movie like that."
The pictures look nice.
Those pictures aren't even recut. Like, those are just pictures that some guy took on stage. Wait until you see. I've seen little things that after Tarsem [Singh] has done his Tarsem magic on it, those pictures look drastically different. Don't think that's what it's going to look like. It's going to look so much cooler.
The untitled Snow White project that Armie Hammer is playing Prince Charming in has finally gotten a title,
Mirror, Mirror.
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