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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.‘ |