"Don't look for any Manchurians in 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake. The only Manchurian is in the name of the villain — an evil multinational conglomerate. Don't look for Manchuria, either — the action stems from the first Gulf War. But you won't find any wacky Iraqis. The mad scientist/brainwasher is a white South African," Douglas J. Rowe reports in A.P.