How ‘Archenemy’ Flipped Joe Manganiello’s ‘Overwhelming Handsomeness’ for Dark Superhero Tale
“He and I were really into getting him scraggly … and growing a beard that his wife [Sofia Vergara] really hated,” director Adam Egypt Mortimer saysLawrence Yee | December 14, 2020 @ 7:33 PM
Last Updated: December 18, 2020 @ 7:16 PM
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Joe Manganiello is a great-looking guy. “Overwhelmingly handsome” describes Adam Egypt Mortimer, who directed the actor in the dark superhero film “Archenemy,” available now on-demand. Mortimer says disrupting Manganiello’s appearance — as well as superhero film norms — is what makes “Archenemy” stand apart from other projects in the genre.
In “Archenemy,” Manganiello plays Max Fist, a disheveled homeless man who claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. Max teams up with a local teen named Hamster (Skylan Brooks) to wipe out the local drug syndicate.