According to Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter, the cast for Dark Fields is firming up with the addition of British actress Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”).
Friel will be playing star Bradley Cooper’s ex-wife, and judging from the logline, it’s probably Cooper’s writer’s decline that prompts their divorce. How it ties into his sudden re-emergence as a productive, successful member of society after his ingestion of an experimental drug that increases his brain power is so plain to see that it’s bordering on predictable.
However, Kit’s synopsis of the film adds an interesting little detail to the story: “[Cooper’s character] discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including ‘trip-switching,’ a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality.”
Filming will commence this May.
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