The deadline has confirmed Transformators actor Josh Duhamel is in early talks to take over Armie Hammer’s role in the Jennifer Lopez action comedy Shotgun wedding. The news comes less than a week after Hammer left the project following a controversy on social media that contained sexual messages he allegedly sent out.
Shotgun Wedding follows Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (who would play Duhamel), who gather their sweet but very judicious families for the ultimate destination wedding, just as the couple begins to get cold feet. And if that was not enough of the threat to the celebration, everyone’s lives are suddenly in danger if the whole party is taken hostage. Jason Moore directs from a screenplay by Mark Hammer and Liz Meriwether. Lionsgate is being released, and if Duhamel can commit, the cameras of the photo could roll next month.
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After the good news about Hammer became known last week, The social network and Rebecca actor replied ‘I do not respond to these stupid allegations, but in light of the cruel and false attacks on me, I can not leave my children for 4 months now to take a movie in the Dominican Republic. Lionsgate supports me in this and I am grateful to them for that. ”
Before Hammer’s response last week, a spokesman for the production said: ‘Given the impending start date of Shotgun Wedding, Requested Armie to refrain from the film and we support him in his decision. ”
Mandeville’s Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman, who produced Lionsgate’s hit film Wonder, also co-produces with Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina of Nuyorican Productions. Alex Young oversees the production and executive production for Mandeville Films, and Courtney Baxter for Nuyorican Productions. Ryan Reynolds is also executive producer with George Dewey. James Myers and Scott O’Brien oversee the production for Lionsgate.
Duhamel appears next in the Netflix series Jupiter’s Legacy of which he is the lead. The actor’s characteristics include Love, Simon, Transformers: The Last Knight, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers, and Win a date with Ted Hamilton !. Duhamel played Danny McCoy on NBC’s for 106 episodes Las Vegas.