Illusionist director Neil Burger is busy assembling the cast for his latest thriller, Dark Fields, and has just added Robert De Niro to the list.
Fields will follow down-and-out New York writer Bradley Cooper, who thinks he’s struck it lucky when he gets hold of a designer drug that gifts him with boosted intelligence and lands him plenty of success.
But he soon realises it has a serious downside (drugs are bad, kids, mmkay?) and, between blackouts and other problems, starts to realise shifty people are after him. One of those in pursuit? A genius financial mogul played by De Niro.
We’re hoping this represents a return to better filmmaking for Bob after the likes of** Righteous Kill** and Everybody’s Fine. Elizabeth Banks is rumoured to be signing on as well.
Burger starts work on the movie in May, shooting from Leslie Dixon’s adaptation of Alan Glynn’s novel.