Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996) on Netflix
Peyton Westlake, the vigilante Darkman, needs money for his synthetic-skin experiments, so he steals a crate of cash from crime boss Peter Rooker. Rooker wants the secret of his strength.
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Plot summary
Scientist Peyton Westlake keeps working on a permanent liquid-skin formula to repair the burns on his face and body, and still goes out as the vigilante Darkman. He breaks up a criminal exchange run by Peter Rooker, a businessman and crime boss, and Rooker becomes fascinated by the strength and agility he shows. Dr. Bridget Thorne, a doctor who treated Westlake after the attack that scarred him, offers to help him finish the formula and thinks she can operate on his nervous system to bring back some of the sensation he lost. In her laboratory in an abandoned industrial complex she performs the surgery, which seems to restore his sense of touch, and with her equipment he makes a small patch of permanent liquid skin that survives sunlight.
Cast
- Alicia Panettaas Jenny Rooker
- Peter Grahamas Joey
- Chris Adamsas Whit
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
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- Michael Colleary and Mike Werb wrote Darkman III: Die Darkman Die while also polishing their spec script Face/Off, and both scripts share the device of a man taking his arch enemy's face and growing close to the enemy's unsuspecting family.
- Director Bradford May prioritized key set pieces to make the most of the film's modest means, and said the final factory explosion in Die Darkman Die was the largest in Canadian film history up to that point.
- Arnold Vosloo was on the fence about reprising Darkman because of the toll extended make-up sessions took on him, and after the films he vowed never to take on such effects-intensive work again, a stance he later softened for The Mummy.
- Writer Verheiden remembers that a relatively simple scene he wrote, where an enraged Darkman bashes a thug's head into the hood of a car, was cut because the required props and stunt performers were too expensive.
