Bradley Cooper and Sam Worthington to Revive The Texas Killing Fields?

[Dark Donnie]

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Bradley Cooper and Sam Worthington to Revive The Texas Killing Fields?

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 by Russ Fischer

For the time being, treat this as a rumor report rather than reliable news. There was once a possible Danny Boyle project called The Texas Killing Fields, written by an ex-cop from Galveston, Texas. Boyle isn’t making the film (he’s making the Aron Ralston stroy 127 Hours instead) but there might be some new forward momentum on the film, thanks to the Michael Mann family and two recently-minted stars, Bradley Cooper and Sam Worthington.

Pajiba reports that Michael Mann is producing the film for his daughter Ami Mann (not the singer Aimee Mann) to direct, and that Cooper and Worthington are now attached. The site, which I’ve read for some time as a source of entertaining criticism, has recently been breaking some news scoops, but aside from the news that Peter Berg was off Dune, many haven’t yet been verified. So don’t get too excited just yet; we’ll see where this one goes.

Boyle called the script almost too dark to get made, and this is from the guy who made Shallow Grave.What’s it about? Pajiba recaps it as concerning “two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas — along Interstate 45 near Calder Road in League City.”

Certainly a plausible set of roles for these two guys, and pending his work as Faceman in The A-Team I’m interested to see if Bradley Cooper can control his career. He’s done a wide variety of work already, but with The Hangover and The A-Team being the films that cement him in the minds of audiences and execs alike, this would be a good breakaway for him. Cast him and Worthington against type (ie have Worthington be the less serious cop) and this might be interesting. If it happens at all.

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[Hunter Rider]

Beat me to it! Sounds like my kind of film, and it would certainly be an interesting change of pace for Cooper.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Indeed Like to see what Mann's daughter can do in the directors chair.

 

[dude stannis]

Mann's daughter would have to be in the Kathryn Bigelow mould I imagine. Hopefully she uses more expensive cameras than daddy too.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

This sounds great. I'm a fan of Cooper and Worthington (should've been Mad Max ), so I'm there.

I also agree about having them play against type. It could be interesting.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Sounds interesting

 

[Hunter Rider]

Sam Worthington Enters The Fields

Investigating a murder in Texas

Sam Worthington has decided on his next project: he’s starring in The Fields for Ami Canaan Mann.

Mann, who you may have guessed, is the daughter of Michael Mann, is lining up to direct a script by Don Ferrarone.

The plot finds a Texas homicide detective (Worthington) who teams up with a New York ‘tec to investigate a series of unsolved murders in the Texas bayou.

It’ll shoot in Louisiana this April, and while The Hollywood Reporter brought the news of Worthington signing up, it was the team at Pajiba who actually broke the first word on the project last November, with Worthington and Bradley Cooper first linked to the starring roles, when the role was called The Texas Killing Fields.

 

[dark_b]

Mann's daughter would have to be in the Kathryn Bigelow mould I imagine. Hopefully she uses more expensive cameras than daddy too.

you are joking right? you dont think he uses cheap cameras right?

 

[TheComicbookKid]

What kind of accent is he going to use?

 

[xwolverine2]

the two most overexposed actors of the year in the same movie together....

fantastic.

 

[Kane52630]

nice, im interested

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63407

Jeffrey Dean Morgan Enters The Fields

Source:Variety, Bloody-Disgusting.com
February 17, 2010


Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, upcoming The Losers) will star alongside Sam Worthington in murder mystery The Fields (formerly known as "Texas Killing Fields"), to be directed by Ami Canaan Mann from a script by Donald F. Ferrarone.

The Fields focuses on the true story of a pair of police officers who undertook to solve two decades of disappearances and homicides -- totaling as many as 60 victims -- in the industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries. Worthington will portray a local homicide detective who works with a New York transplant (Morgan) to wage a war against the unknown but fierce killers.

Production is scheduled to begin April 5 in Louisiana. Michael Mann is producing along with Michael Jaffe.

 

[Kane52630]

GDM, Sam Worthington, and Bradley Cooper? nice.

 

[scifiwolf]

GDM, Sam Worthington, and Bradley Cooper? nice.

I don't think Bradley Cooper's going to be in this. I think Jeffery Dean Morgan is taking over whatever role Bradley Cooper would've had.

 

[Raiden]

I don't think Bradley Cooper's going to be in this. I think Jeffery Dean Morgan is taking over whatever role Bradley Cooper would've had.

A mod will need to change the title of this thread, then.

 

[Roy Batty]

Jessica Chastain has been cast as the female lead. She's already worked with Sam Worthington in "The Debt", which has yet to be released.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i6e499b206b4e48abf98eea6afd291e23

 

[Project862006]

Italian Trailer
http://collider.com/texas-killing-fields-italian-trailer/107139/

 

[Jackasscoley15]

I think I'm going to have to wait for the English trailer, I couldn't get halfway through the Italian version without laughing.

 

[flickchick85]

Well, the visuals look nice...but yeah, unless you speak Italian, it's probably better to watch that on mute, lol. This is gonna be playing at the Venice Film Festival (hence the Italian trailer), so we should be seeing some reviews in about a month. And hopefully an English-language trailer assuming it'll be hitting the other festivals as well.

 

[Project862006]

Official Trailer

 

[Hunter Rider]

Looks great.

 

[flickchick85]

Worthington's accent aside, I agree.

Also, Jessica Chastain seems to be the busiest actress on the planet all of a sudden. Not a complaint - I liked her in Tree of Life and she was great in The Help. But she's also got major roles in The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus and Wilde Salome this year. That's seven movies in 2011 alone. Where the f*** did she come from? It's not like she had a major breakout performance or starred in the biggest movie of all-time or anything. She just sort of...appeared. With the sole intent of world domination, it seems.

 

[Project862006]

she did some out of nowhere before The Debt she did nothing but tv shows

 

[Rocketman]

Also, Jessica Chastain seems to be the busiest actress on the planet all of a sudden. Not a complaint - I liked her in Tree of Life and she was great in The Help. But she's also got major roles in The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus and Wilde Salome this year. That's seven movies in 2011 alone. Where the f*** did she come from? It's not like she had a major breakout performance or starred in the biggest movie of all-time or anything. She just sort of...appeared. With the sole intent of world domination, it seems.

It's quite surreal, isn't it? It's like she just randomly Out-Bryce-Dallas-Howarded Bryce Dallas Howard.

 

[flickchick85]

It's quite surreal, isn't it? It's like she just randomly Out-Bryce-Dallas-Howarded Bryce Dallas Howard.

Haha, yeah I only recently learned her name and stopped calling her "Not!Bryce."

It really is a bit surreal. Kinda reminds me of a Buffy episode where suddenly this background character (Jonathan) - who had been in the show since the beginning but only had a couple of lines throughout the first few seasons - was suddenly all over the place. He was world famous, the guy everyone went to for help and advice, was suddenly a part of Buffy's inner circle (when before he was barely noticed), a renowned vampire slayer, all kinds of stuff (they even re-edited the opening credits of the show to make him a major part of them). Of course it turned out that it was just a spell he had cast that had altered reality turning him into a superstar overnight. That's what this feels like, lol

Or as Mindy Kaling (Kelly from The Office) recently tweeted:

Its the era of Jessica Chastain and we're just living in it

http://twitter.com/#!/mindykaling/status/104201121857409024