De Niro wanders into The Dark Fields

Robert De Niro signs on to co-star with Bradley Cooper in the film The Dark Fields. The Relativity Media film is based off of the 2003 novel of the same name written by Alan Glynn . Producing the picture is Scott Kroopf, Ryan Kavanaugh and Leslie Dixon from a script penned by Dixon.

The story centers on a down-and-out Gotham writer (Cooper) who comes into possession of a designer drug that gives him newfound intelligence and success. De Niro will play a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper’s character (Variety).

Neil Burger is attached to direct, his previous credits include The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones. De Niro can be seen once more on the big screen in a few films this year, a couple of them being the John Curran thriller Stone, Little Fockers and the Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez directed Machete.