On February 14, 2013, it was announced that Mann had been developing an untitled thriller film with Screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl for over a year, for Legendary Pictures. In May 2013, Mann started filming the thriller, named Blackhat, in Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Jakarta. The film, starring Chris Hemsworth as a hacker who gets released from prison to pursue a cyberterrorist across the globe, was released on January 16, 2015 by Universal. It was a critical and commercial disaster, although many critics included it in their year-end "best-of" lists.