Sony Hack? Pfft: Watch Chris Hemsworth Show Off His Skills In The New Trailer For Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’

Let’s get this out of the way early: that mooted and potential Oscar-qualifying run for Michael Mann’s “Blackhat”? Yeah, as you probably suspected by now, it’s not happening (we checked with the studio). But that’s ok, it just appears that Mann’s movie is not that kind of picture, and is perhaps just more pure genre-thriller from Mann, maybe à la “Miami Vice.” Hey, we’ll take it and we’re ok with that.

In Mann’s latest picture, a cyber-hacking thriller, Chris Hemsworth stars as a convicted black-hat hacker serving federal time who gets a day off to help a collation of American and Chinese officials track down a cyber criminal. Here’s the official synopsis:

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...