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Armie Ham­mer is set for Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift

04 Apr 2017

Words by Sophie Wyatt

Two bearded men in casual attire, one wearing a grey jacket and the other a brown jacket, standing indoors.
Two bearded men in casual attire, one wearing a grey jacket and the other a brown jacket, standing indoors.
The Free Fire star is team­ing up with the British writer/​director for a futur­is­tic sci-fi thriller.

Ben Wheat­ley has col­lab­o­rat­ed with his reg­u­lar writ­ing part­ner (and wife) Amy Jump again for an intrigu­ing-sound­ing sci-fi thriller called Freak­shift.

Although very lit­tle is known about the project as of yet, the sto­ry is said to con­cern a group of out­sider cops who are tasked with hunt­ing and dis­patch­ing under­ground monsters.

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Ali­cia Vikan­der is in for the lead role, and it’s now con­firmed that Armie Ham­mer will play her love inter­est, mak­ing this the sec­ond time that the pair have been cast along­side each oth­er fol­low­ing Guy Ritchie’s 2015 spy flick The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

In our recent inter­view with the British writer/​director, Wheat­ley revealed that com­ic book artist Mick McMa­hon has been draw­ing sto­ry­boards for the film. Wheat­ley him­self has set up a Twit­ter page which has been teas­ing McMahon’s ear­ly con­cept sketch­es for the past few weeks.

Freak­shift sees Ham­mer con­tin­ue his recent thread of con­cep­tu­al action films. He’s just wrapped film­ing on the upcom­ing American/​Australian thriller Hotel Mum­bai, with Dev Patel and Jason Isaacs. Right now he can be seen in Wheatley’s Free Fire, which you can read more about in our lat­est print issue.

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