It’s weird to think a new film from Michael Mann is destined for a January release, though that’s just the case with his new film Cyber, due for theaters on January 16 2015. Of course, that’s always been the date and I guess you could say it might be because the studio is considering a limited Oscar release in December, but given this doesn’t seem like that much of an “awards film”, I don’t think that’s the case.
My guess is this is an example of a studio testing the early year dumping ground, hoping they can slide something that isn’t and “awards film” in there and make some coin. There’s also the other possibility, the film is shit and the dumping ground of January is where it belongs. I refuse to accept that option.
As of now little is known about the film other than it revolves around a U.S.-China task force pursuing a hacker hailing from the Balkans and based in a Southeast Asian country. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, William Mapother and Holt McCallany, the latter of which posted in a tweet that has since been deleted (though preserved as seen here) that the film would actually be titled Blackhat, which would actually make sense as you’ll learn below.
Over at The Playlist, they spoke with Mann earlier this year and he spoke about the film saying, “With great facility the people in the film move between Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Chicago. And the film’s story takes you from those places to inside a processor, inside the electron universe, amongst a population of transistors… You have two billion transistors in your cell phone. Bits with either an absence or surplus of electrons, then become ones or zeroes, every two billionth of a second and affect the macro, our lives. That’s the world this film takes place in.”
Now here’s a second picture courtesy of The Playlist.
