Darkman (1990) on Netflix
Dr. Peyton Westlake is perfecting synthetic skin for burn victims. Mobster Robert Durant raids his lab for a document, and a blast leaves Westlake disfigured.
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Plot summary
Julie Hastings, an attorney, finds the Bellasarious Memorandum, a document showing that her boss, the developer Louis Strack Jr., bribed zoning commission members. Strack admits the bribery helped his plan for a new city and warns that criminals might want the memorandum. Julie leaves it at the lab of her boyfriend, Dr. Peyton Westlake, a scientist working on synthetic skin for burn victims. The material breaks down after 99 minutes because it is photosensitive, and Westlake discovers that light destroys it. Crime boss Robert Durant and his armed thugs then raid the lab looking for the document; Westlake is tortured and badly disfigured when the lab is blown up.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Darkman (1990)
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- Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi's longtime friend and collaborator, was originally planned to play Darkman, but the studio replaced him because it did not consider him well known enough to carry the film.
- Darkman's original editor, David Stiven, suffered a nervous breakdown and left the film after his early cuts tested so poorly that Universal executives called it one of the worst-scoring pictures in the studio's history.
- Liam Neeson's Darkman makeup took up to five hours to apply and he wore the ten-piece prosthetics for as long as 18 hours a day, all while also waking at 3 a.m. to train as a boxer for another film he was simultaneously preparing to shoot.
