Comic con is hardly about the comics anymore. In fact the biggest draws for the event have passing connections to the comic book world at best, including this upcoming Michael Mann project starring Chris Hemsworth. The premise doesn’t seem too far fetched to say that the target audience isn’t one and the same but I have yet to find any comic books bearing the name ‘Blackhat’. Blasphemy.

Directed and produced by Michael Mann, BLACKHAT follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom, and it is written by Morgan Davis Foehl and Mann.

 

Set within the world of global cybercrime, Legendary’s BLACKHAT follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. Directed and produced by Michael Mann, the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom, and it is written by Morgan Davis Foehl and Mann. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni produce alongside Mann, while Alex Garcia and Eric McLeod serve as the executive producers.

This is definitely a premise I think would appeal to the audience of comic book fans but man-o-man they may need to consider renaming this show…

Source: Warner Bros.