Already tapped to star in season 5 of FX’s Fargo and currently searching for love only to find savings in Progressive Insurance ads with Flo, Jon Hamm is on a career-high these days. Fresh off his run as a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer in Top Gun: Maverick, Hamm is not letting go of audiences just yet. The 51-year-old’s latest project Confess, Fletch will simultaneously receive a limited release in theaters with a Video-on-Demand making its debut on September 16 before heading to Showtime on October 28.

The 1985 screwball comedy Fletch, which starred SNL alum Chevy Chase follows Chase as Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher, a committed investigative reporter who gets caught up in a web of hilarious conflict and mystery. The movie was based on a novel series by Gregory McDonald. Hamm takes up the mantle of playing Fletch in the new film, which is based on McDonald’s second Fletch novel.

The new image of Hamm released on Thursday shows the actor as Fletch wearing a preppy-looking sports coat and standing outside. Behind him are a series of maritime signal flags, which hints at the setting of at least one of Fletch’s misadventures in the new film. Apparently, he will have to infiltrate a sailing club. In Confess, Fletch, Hamm’s character, finds himself a suspect in a murder case, all while his own investigation puts his heiress girlfriend on the suspect list. He is also saddled with recovering his girlfriend’s stolen art collection, inherited from her long-lost father.

Jon Hamm Continues to Prove His Range as an Actor

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Regarding his turn as Fletch, Hamm said:

“I am beyond excited to continue to tell the story of Irwin M. Fletcher." He continued, “[b]ut please don’t call him Irwin. I can’t wait for people to see what I hope will be the first of many installments in Gregory MacDonald’s wonderful detective novel series. As a fan of the books for even longer than I have been a fan of the original film, it’s an honor and a pleasure to bring “Fletch” back home, in all his shambling and off-center yet somehow witty and sophisticated, messy, funny, glory to Paramount.”