While at the premiere of Rush in Cologne, Germany, actor Chris Hemsworth talked to FF about Michael Mann’s upcoming thriller, Cyber.
"I
just finished it. It's based in the world of cyber terrorism," Hemsworth
said. "Basically, something similar to the Chicago Board of Trade is
hacked into and it sets off a chain of events around the world, affecting the
stock market. And the code that was used to hack into it, my character had
written it years before and he happens to be in prison for cyber crime. He is
pulled out and offered a deal if he works with a joint task force of the FBI
and the Chinese goverment in trying to track this guy down. It starts off in
Chicago and ends up in Kuala Lumpur, in Hong Kong and in Jakarta. It's this
sort of cat-and-mouse international heist-thriller."
Hemsworth
then added:
"It
was fascinating. I knew nothing about that world. It's very prominent now as we
see what hacking and cyber terrorism can do, like shutting down power grids in
other countries. In our film, he (the villain) shuts down the water pumps to
overheat the cooling system in a nuclear power plant and causes a whole lot of
chaos. When you do that research, you realize how vulnerable you are."
Also
starring in Cyber is Viola Davis, Hanny Montana, Spancer Garrett, Wei Tang,
Archie Kao and Leehom Wang. At this point Cyber doesn’t have a release date yet.
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