Ubiquitous actor John Hamm is preparing for the roles of a lifetime, playing every role in his upcoming film, Overexposed.
According to Hamm, who we caught up with playing golf in a foursome with the Rock, Kevin Hart, and Zoey Saldana, he will even play the inanimate objects in the film, including the trees, cars, boats, and houses – as well as all of the animals, from the mosquitoes to the sharks.
“I have tremendous range, as you have all seen from all of the TV shows, commercials, and movies that I’m in,” said Hamm, who actually appeared in every film made last year. “But with this new project, I really wanted to challenge myself.”
The film is about a retired cop, Joe Fann, who is kidnapped by a Euro terrorist who thinks he’s the corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company that is funding drug lords in Columbia who are selling cocaine to small children, and big children, but then ICE officers blow up the children on a boat by mistake in an attempt to kill the terrorist, who hides out in an undersea cave but gets eaten by sharks.
Fann’s wife and best friend were led to believe that he was out participating in a Walk across America event which would take him a year to walk across America, so they didn’t really look for him or report him as a missing person until a year later, at which time they set out to find him, following the clues that take them around the world to Paris, Rome, London, and Tokyo where they have a torrid affair and eat lots of great food and enjoy all of the tourist sites. Eventually, they find Fann locked in a room under the floor or the pharmaceutical executives house, who uses him as a human guinea pig to test his drugs which are designed to make you vote Republican.
Will Joe Fann end up voting Republican? Or will his wife and best friend take a break from their year-long affair to find him? We’ll find out next fall when the film comes out.
In the mean time, Jon Hamm will be on set playing multiple characters, including, but not limited to:
Joe Fann
The Euro terrorist
The corrupt CEO
The Columbian drug lords
Cocaine
Small children
Big children
ICE officers
The boat
The bomb
Various cars
The undersea cave
The sharks
His wife
His best friend
All of the people in the Walk Across America event
The Eiffel Tower
The Colosseum
Big Ben
Tokyo
Various trees
Food
A guinea pig
Test tubes
Pills/drugs
Houses and buildings
A Republican
And this just scratches the surface of the roles he will play in the film. In one scene, the script calls for a small mosquito to bite Joe Fann while he is locked in the pharma CEO’s basement. Hamm will play the small mosquito that bites himself.
“It’s really a tour de force,” said the director, John Hamm. “I’ve never directed someone as good as I was in this film in basically everything.”
There is a lot of buzz that John Hamm will get nominated for an Oscar for this film — not for any acting role, but as a set piece for his role as an undersea cave.