Armie Hammer joins Stanley Tucci’s “Final Portrait”

Armie Hammer is the latest cast member to be added to Final Portrait, the upcoming biopic from Stanley Tucci in his first major feature as director since 2007’s Blind Date, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The Lone Ranger star with join Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, who will take the lead as Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

Tucci is working from his own script based on the novel A Giacometti Portrait by the artist’s friend, the American critic James Lord, who in 1960s Paris sat down for 18 days, studying Giacometti as he painted his picture using oils.

Gail Egan, Potboiler Productions, Ilann Girard, Fred Hogg and Olive Productions are producing, while HanWay is handling international sales and offering the film to buyers in Cannes. CAA is repping the film for the U.S.