According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shia LaBeouf will play a lucky loser in "The Dark Fields," a thriller in the vein of "Fight Club" and "The Game."
His character gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes you smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has deleterious side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality.
Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") is directing the Universal Pictures project, working from an adaptation of the book by Alan Glynn.
His character gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes you smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has deleterious side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality.
Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") is directing the Universal Pictures project, working from an adaptation of the book by Alan Glynn.
