Dan Stevens is filling the role vacated by Armie Hammer earlier this year, Stevens is cast Starz’s Watergate drama “Gaslit.”
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Stevens will step in for Hammer as John Dean, the young
White House counsel torn between his ambition and his struggle with whether he
can lie to protect the president.
This new series is described by the studio as a
“modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten
characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates,
to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic
whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing
down.”
Hailing from UCP, a division of Universal Studio
Group, “Gaslit” will be directed by Matt Ross and Robbie Pickering as the
showrunner. Sam Esmail, Matt Ross, and Robbie Pickering are the executive
producers of the series.
On the other hand, Armie Hammer had to walk away from
multiple projects in recent months due to allegations of rape and other violent
s***al behavior. Hammer, who has denied the allegations, also dropped out of
the movie “Shotgun Wedding” and “The Godfather” making-of series at Paramount+
earlier this year and, unfortunately, Hammer was also dropped by his agency,
WME.