Merrick here...
The great Armie Hammer - also said to be orbiting Jerry Bruckheimer's LONE RANGER movie (in which Johnny Depp would play Tonto opposite Hammer's Ranger) has boarded a fantastical thriller called 2:22.
THIS piece at THR offers an oddly worded, aggravatingly imprecise description of the picture...
2:22 is described as a “rollercoaster thriller that centers on Dylan (Hammer) an air traffic controller who is given a jolt when he narrowly escapes being responsible for a mid air collision between two passenger planes. Caused by a mysterious blinding light that happened at 2:22, these strange occurrences continue and lead Dylan to meet Sarah, with whom he feels inexplicably linked. Together the two discover uncanny similarities with their current predicament and a double murder committed a generation ago. With a grim fate looming, Dylan must solve the mystery of 2:22 to preserve a love whose second chance has finally come.
Hammer was so, so cool as The Winklevoss twins in David Fincher's SOCIAL NETWORK and it's great to see him getting this kind of attention. In a previous post I pleaded for someone to give Hammer a superhero role (he was almost Batman in George miller's now-defunct JUSTICE LEAGUE CGI epic). THE LONE RANGER wasn't necessarily what I had in mind but, hey, if it works...
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