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09Nov2009

Bradley Cooper Harvests 'Dark Fields'

DateMonday, November 9, 2009 at 12:33AM
He might have missed out on The Green Lantern, but Bradley Cooper has been able to turn The Hangover into a pretty good assortment of upcoming roles. The A-Team is probably the one on everyone's mind, but there's also Matt Helm, which is supposed to be a new spy franchise. But based on how "well" The Vampire's Assistant did, we'll wait until there are some more concrete results before talking sequels.

Cooper has also just picked up a role that Shia LaBeouf had agreed to several months ago, signing on to Illusionist director Neil Burger's Dark Fields. It's based on Alan Glynn's 2001 novel, and this one sounds unusual, with Cooper playing Eddie, a struggling writer who takes a pill called MDT-48 to unleash every part of his brainpower. He uses it for evil, though, and abuses the drug to become more successful.

Then the other shoe falls, as Publishers Weekly summarizes:

"[Eddie] chooses to ignore the mounting side effects of MDT-48: piercing headaches, intense bouts of rage and "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Day trading on the stock market like a seasoned professional, Eddie soon becomes an immensely wealthy junkie armed with awe-inspiring artistic and financial brainpower. But when he's implicated in the brutal murder of a high-profile artist's wife and also linked to pharmaceutical espionage, his perfect new world unravels and the shocking truth about MDT-48's origin and purpose is revealed."

It's the first real heavy dramatic turn for Cooper since he's become something like a commodity, and this more than the other stuff he has lined up will be a real test of his abilities. But that's something he's gotta do if he wants to put himself on the A-list.

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