De Niro Joins Cooper in The Dark Fields

Robert De Niro will be starring with Bradley Cooper in Relativity Media’s suspense thriller The Dark Fields, directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist).

The film follows a writer (Cooper) who discovers a new designer drug that gives him new found intelligence and success. De Niro will play a financial mogul who is hot on the trail of Cooper’s character.

Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) is also rumored to be attached to the film, but this is yet to be confirmed. The script was written by Leslie Dixon, and was adapted from a novel by Alan Glynn.   Universal is distributing the film.

Shooting begins this May in Philadelphia.