Morgan digs through The Fields

Jeffrey Dean Morgan latches onto the upcoming project entitled The Fields which already includes in the cast Sam Worthington. The picture is being directed by Ami Canaan Mann, the daughter of Michael Mann who will be serving as producer on this along with Michael Jaffe.

Morgan will be playing a detective transplanted from New York, while the “Avatar” thesp will portray a local investigator probing a series of unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries, where as many as 70 bodies have turned up over the past two decades. Together they wage a war against the unknown assailants (Variety).

The Fields was penned by Donald F. Ferrarone and is expected to start initial filming on April 5th in Louisiana. No set release date is attached to this picture from Foward Pass Productions.