FROM THE NEWS ARCHIVES OF CINEMA CONFIDENTIAL
John Malkovich joins "The Mutant Chronicles"
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03/27/06 AT 7:30 P.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES
The Hollywood Reporter reports that John Malkovich will join Thomas Jane in the sci-fi action thriller "The Mutant Chronicles," a film based on the sci-fi role playing game. Malkovich will play a 23rd century corporate overlord. The character Constantine heads a United Nations-style council of four corporation-run countries that have pillaged Earth's natural resources. When a marauding army of "NecroMutants" wages a battle against humans for the little that remains, Constantine is tempted to destroy the planet and evacuate some of its people rather than allow it to be overtaken, all with the corporations' best interests in mind. Jane plays Maj. Mitch Hunter, a Marine who leads the humans in their fight and becomes Constantine's antagonist.