Disney have said that Armie Hammer’s role in Death on the Nile is “not currently” due to be reshot or recast.Variety reports that a source close to Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation says there are no plans to replace Hammer – who plays the film’s male lead – in light of recent allegations of sexual assault.“It seems like the only way to go with this is to come out front and say: ‘Hundreds of people worked on this project, and we’re not scrapping it because of one individual,’” a rival studio executive also told Variety.Earlier this month, Hammer was accused of rape by a woman named Effie, who said she “thought that [Hammer] was going to kill me”.It is said that Effie is the same woman who anonymously posted allegations about.
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