In Michael Mann's (Heat) nieuwste film speelt Chris Hemsworth (Thor en The Avengers) een veroordeelde hacker die vervroegd vrijkomt om samen met de Amerikaanse en Chinese geheime dienst een cyber crimineel moet tegen houden en dit avontuur neemt hem mee over de halve wereld. Vandaag verschenen er niet alleen de onderstaande behind the scenes video, maar ook dit en dit interview met Michael Mann over de film en zijn research er voor.

Question: Michael, your last film, Public Enemies, was in 2009 so we've missed you on the big screen. Have you been taking a break or is this a project that you've been working on for a couple years?

MICHAEL MANN: Well both. After Public Enemies, I did Luck for almost two years. And then, from Luck, I started working on three screenplays of which this is one. We were in Washington when the story really occurred to us on August 8, 2011. So I've been on this for 3-1/2 years.

Your movies typically spend a lot of time with bad guys. Are hackers your new gangsters?

I don't know what gangsters are, but I do know what cybercrime is. Whether it's coming from Estonia or Russia or the Ukraine or China or Taiwan or Mumbai, it's about making a lot of money. It's very, very sophisticated.

Yet, hacker culture hasn't gotten the most accurate treatment in Hollywood.

I was a pupil in this stuff. We spent time with Mike Rogers, who was head of the House Intelligence Committee. In the movie, the things people are typing and the text you see are all the real thing.