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Bradley Cooper takes a stroll through "Dark Fields"
06 November 2009
This week has been marked by wholesale casting changes, first with "The Tourist" and now Neil Bruger‘s ("The Illusionist") "Dark Fields". Originally set to star Shia LaBeouf in the lead role, the "Transformers" star has, obviously, since balked at the project and made way for "The Hangover‘s" Bradley Cooper. This will make for a nice doubleheader for Cooper after his work in the forthcoming "A–Team".
Based on the Alan Glynn book of the same name, "Dark Fields" will tell the story of a struggling writer who takes a top–secret pharmaceutical drug that exponentially boosts his brainpower. However, there‘s a catch. The down–on–his–luck scribe starts experiencing a ‘trip–switching‘ phenomenon that makes him perceive time differently to everyone else.
Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision Blog describes the film thus; ‘Imagine a drug that makes your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your most fundamental resources of intelligence and drive, releasing all the passive knowledge you‘d ever accumulated. A drug that made you focused, charming, fast, even attractive. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug. It‘s called MDT–48, and it‘s Viagra for the brain – a designer drug that‘s redesigning his life. But while MDT is helping Eddie achieve the kind of success he‘s only dreamed about, it‘s also chipping away at his sanity–splitting headaches, spontaneous blackouts, violent outbursts. And now that he‘s hooked and his supply is running low, Eddie must venture into the drug‘s dark past to feed his habit. What he discovers proves that MDT, once a dream come true, has become his worst nightmare.‘
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In 2009 Shia is in the Dark…Fields
18 September 2008
Shia LaBeouf is certainly fond of a dark thriller or two these days. What with "Eagle Eye" due to hit our screens soon, the "Transformers" star is down to enter the "Dark Fields" this winter shooting on location in New York. Comingsoon.net managed to coax this exclusive bit of news out of director Neil Burger during the press round for his latest indie road movie "The Lucky Ones".
"Dark Fields" will be based on Alan Glynn‘s 2002 novel of the same name and will focus on a very near–future world where a Viagra–like pill makes you instantly smarter. Glynn‘s well–received sci–fi will be adapted by Leslie Dixon, who has just finished polishing off the script for the remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s "The Birds" set to star Naomi Watts.
Burger revealed to Comingsoon.net that he plans to eschew the sci–fi roots of the novel and instead steep the adaptation in a recognisable world. "It‘s more like if there‘s Viagra or steroids, why isn‘t there something that increases your synaptic connections and makes you think smarter and faster, but it‘s not without side effects and consequences."
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