"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm joins "Baby Driver" crime thriller October 21, 2015 - 04:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - In his first move since signing off from Mad Men, Jon Hamm has joined Ansel Elgort in TriStar and MRC's Baby Driver, the latest movie from filmmaker Edgar Wright, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The crime thriller centers on a getaway driver, a near mute with an ear condition who relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss, he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom. Hamm will play one of the film’s villains, a former Wall Street trader turned cop killer who is part of the gang of bank robbers. Lily James is already on board as the love interest, a waitress. Working Title and Nira Park are producing. MRC and TriStar are co-financing the project 50-50. Hamm is coming to the project following a long-deserved Emmy win for his work on AMC’s Mad Men; the actor had been nominated for best actor eight times, once for each of the show’s seasons, before landing the prize for the show’s final outing. Among the actor’s film credits is The Town, with Ben Affleck, and Hamm is wrapping up shooting the Fox comedy Keeping Up With the Joneses with Gal Gadot and Zach Galifianakis.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
