De Niro Sees Clearly in ‘The Dark Fields’

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After heading towards the exit door from police thriller Son of No One, Robert De Niro is joining yet another thriller, this time opposite Bradley Cooper in the book to film adaptation of The Dark Fields. Regardless where De Niro’s career path has taken him, if I’m Cooper, I’m probably pinching myself at the opportunity of working with the legend. Variety reports that De Niro will play a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper’s character, which was originally set up with Shia LaBeouf in the lead.

Based on Alan Glynn’s novel and scripted by Leslie Dixon (she wrote The Thomas Crown Affair), procuring an amazing new designer drug that gives one awesome mental capabilities, a writer (Cooper) takes it regularly and begins to become rich and powerful. Only then he discovers the drug’s dangerous side effects and the fact that, if he ever stops taking it, he’ll die. Meanwhile, he must elude other takers of the drug who are desperate for his stash.

Filming takes place in Philly this May, and despite having not seen The Lucky Ones, I’ll be checking this out because I happen to like Neil Burger previous pair of films. 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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