{"id":661801,"date":"2026-06-27T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661801\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:27:14","slug":"elon-musk-posted-armie-hammers-banned-film-citizen-vigilante-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661801\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Posted Armie Hammer’s Banned Film ‘Citizen Vigilante’ on X"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElon Musk<\/a> is a fan of the Armie Hammer<\/a>-starrer Citizen Vigilante.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Citizen Vigilante<\/a> was banned in Germany<\/a> because regulators refused to grant the film an age rating over concerns that its violent content could incite violence against immigrants, Musk posted the full movie to his X account<\/a>, which has more than 240 million followers, making it available to watch for 48 hours. Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker who wrote and directed Citizen Vigilante, also shared the film. While it\u2019s no longer available on either account, the movie has since been reposted by X users.<\/p>\n

\n\tCitizen Vigilante stars Hammer as Sanders, a vigilante who takes justice into his own hands. According to Apple TV, the official synopsis reads: \u201cLiving in Croatia, a wealthy American businessman transforms into a feared vigilante who targets violent criminals, rapists and corrupt judges. As his brutal campaign gains traction online and across the media, he soon becomes a wanted criminal and an unlikely public hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, Boll announced on X<\/a> that a sequel, Citizen Vigilante 2, is slated for release in 2027. It\u2019s unclear whether Hammer will return. THR reached out to Boll for comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

\n\tMusk also replied to a post on X<\/a> showing that Citizen Vigilante had climbed to No. 2 on Apple TV, writing, \u201cCitizen Vigilante 2 will be even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIts star, Hammer, is known for acclaimed films including The Social Network and Call Me by Your Name. Citizen Vigilante marks one of his first leading roles since he was dropped by his agency<\/a>, WME, and largely disappeared from Hollywood following allegations of sexual assault in 2021. Hammer denied the allegations, and after a lengthy investigation, Los Angeles prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against him in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a rare interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Hammer recalled learning that Boll wanted him for the project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I cried,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was just this moment where I was like: I\u2019m going to get to do the thing that I love more than anything \u2014 other than my children. I would have done a fucking cat food commercial. I just wanted to work again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHammer also reflected on the allegations and their impact on his career.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI made these problems for myself. This didn\u2019t happen to me by a fluke accident. I didn\u2019t do what people are saying I did. But I brought very dangerous and unsafe people into my life, and I pissed off people in my life \u2014 and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is a fan of the Armie Hammer-starrer Citizen Vigilante. After Citizen Vigilante was banned in Germany…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[150663,995,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-armie-hammer","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}