It looks like Chris Hemsworth will be setting aside his hammer and breastplate long enough to play a coding genius in director Michael Mann's new movie, "Blackhat." According to Entertainment Weekly, Hemsworth will play an imprisoned hacker from MIT named Nicholas Hathaway who gets a deal with the feds because he might be the only living person able to track down the mysterious hacker who caused the meltdown of a Chinese nuclear reactor.

 The first trailer for the new movie shows Hemsworth running, dodging bullets (and shooting them, too), and flying all while within a nuclear reactor in meltdown mode. The opening titles on the trailer read, "Our world is interconnected, our systems interconnected, our identities vulnerable, our security vulnerable, our homes vulnerable."

Mann commented on the film, "They don't know who [the terrorist] is, where he is, and they don't know why he's doing what he's doing... there's no apparent motive. The people they're working against are high-speed, world class. They're dangerous, violent, and that launches our story," further conveying the movie's plot and the villain's mysterious nature.

Mann's movies have long been able to find the points of connections between his heroes and his villains. He is the producer of the TV series "Miami Vice," and is also the man who brought Hannibal Lecter to the screen in "Manhunter" (1986). Entertainment Weekly reports that Mann is known for obsessively researching the world his characters inhabit, and that he spent years getting to know the cyber-battleground that whitehat and blackhat hackers wage war on from their laptops.

For those of you who aren't sure what whitehat and blackhat hackers are, whitehat hackers are computer hackers intending to improve Internet security while blackhat hackers are hackers whose purpose is to breach or bypass Internet security. Mann's takeaway on the subject is as follows: "[Hacking is] happening on mechanical pieces of equipment that are sometimes 16 or 20 atoms wide, and the repercussions, in terms of everything from famine to hope to retail food prices, is huge and instantaneous...That reaction time-that's the world we live in now," highlighting that what binds the globe together can also make it increasingly vulnerable.

"Blackhat" opens on January 16, 2015, and will star Viola Davis, Tang Wei, and Leehom Wang alongside Hemsworth.