It’s ironic timing for Crackle — Sony’s streaming platform — to debut a film about cyberterrorism, given that the company was the target of a massive hack late last year.
But on Friday it premieres “The Throwaways,” a 90-minute original movie about a notorious hacker (Sam Huntington) captured by the CIA and then tasked with taking down a cyberterrorist in Eastern Europe who is threatening mass destruction.
He agrees on the condition that he can choose his own team — a group of “throwaways,” washed-up agents deemed expendable by the organization.
“They’re hoping these guys are going to fail. Somehow, the chemistry with these misfit guys works, and they actually are good at what they do,” star Kevin Dillon tells The Post.
“Each guy brings something to the table and that makes them a good team. I don’t think any of them are great soldiers alone.”
The movie co-stars James Caan (“The Godfather”) and counts Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker”) as an executive producer. Dillon — best known as Johnny Drama on HBO’s “Entourage” — plays gung-ho combat specialist Dan Fisher, whose trigger-happy ways got him booted from missions to pushing papers at the embassy.
“Fisher thinks he’s this great soldier, but he’s got issues,” Dillon says. “He’s got a bad temper. He can’t stay calm, he wants to see action so bad that it hurts him as a soldier. [But] Fisher, when you need the guy to bash the door in and go nuts, he’s your guy.”
Dillon knows his way around weapons from doing war movies like 1986’s “Platoon,” and that came in handy for the three-week “Throwaways” shoot as he handled an AK-47-style rifle and a bazooka.
The actor admits there is a bit of Drama in Fisher.
“One guy wants the glory of the action, the other guy wants the glory of the acting,” Dillon says. “Drama’s all about his career. They both have that in common. Fisher just wants to be this great soldier, but he’s not because he’s such a hothead. That’s another thing they have in common — they’re both hotheads.”
But despite the characters’ similarities, the actor says he doesn’t go looking for tough-guy roles.
“Maybe they just come to me somehow. I think it’s the New York accent,” says Dillon, who grew up in Mamaroneck. “New York’s got that tough edge.”