Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)

One fights for justice. The other for power. Only one can survive.

Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...

Date of release
1996-04-14
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Director
Bradford May
Collection
Darkman Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die is a 1996 Canadian-American superhero film directed by Bradford May, starring Arnold Vosloo, Jeff Fahey, Darlanne Fluegel and Roxann Dawson. It is the sequel to 1995's Darkman II: The Return of Durant, whose director Sam Raimi serves as executive producer. Vosloo once again stars as Darkman, who stands against power-hungry entrepreneur Peter Rooker (Fahey), and forges a strange emotional bond with his enemy's neglected wife and daughter.

Production

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die is the sister picture to its predecessor, Darkman II: The Return of Durant. Both films were greenlit together by Universal Pictures in 1992, and developed alongside one another.

Darkman III was written by Michael Colleary and Mike Werb. The pair was concurrently polishing their spec script Face/Off, which was pitched before the Darkman sequels, but went through a protracted development across two studios, and ended up being filmed after them.

Due to Larry Drake's prior commitments, the sequel he appeared in was scheduled to be shot last, and it was initially assumed that this would be its release order as well. For this reason, Darkman III was known as Darkman II during production. However, in a March 1995 interview, actress Roxann Dawson said she was unsure of the film's final title.

Like The Return of Durant, Die Darkman Die was shot in Toronto, Ontario, and used much of the same crew. Principal photography started on November 15, 1993, and concluded on December 20. The crew then took a break before the shooting of the other instalment. The aggregate budget for both films was slightly less than US$7 million, with Darkman II: The Return of Durant taking up the better part of that amount at US$4 million.

May prioritized key set pieces to make the most of the film's modest means. According to the director, the final factory explosion in Die Darkman Die was the largest in Canadian film history up to that point. However, Verheiden also remembers that a relatively simple scene he had written, where an enraged Darkman bashed a thug's head into the hood of a car, was nixed as the required props and stuntpersons were too expensive.

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