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Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 10:14PM Sam Worthington Plows 'Texas Killing Fields'
The Sam Worthington race to conquer the free world continues unabated. Avatar's Jake Sully and the only really good thing about Terminator Salvation keeps lining up big roles, although the list looks longer because he's accepted a couple of offers and later backed out, such as The Tourist, which now stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

The latest dotted line signed by Worthington is the murder mystery Texas Killing Fields. Production Weekly Tweeted this weekend that Michael Mann and his Forward Pass label will produce, and Mann's daughter, Ami Canaan Mann, will direct. Has she ever directed before? Why yes, she was behind the camera for a Friday Night Lights episode just last month. OK, that's not a lot to go on.
Here's what we know about the project: Donald Ferrarone is responsible for the script, about two police officers who set about solving a string of disappearances and murders that plagued the Gulf Coast region for almost 20 years. All told, the crime wave claimed about five dozen victims. This is a true story, by the way.
Worthington is believed to be playing a Texas detective working with an as-yet uncast New York cop on the trail of the crime.
The film goes into production in a couple months in - where else? - Louisiana, where so many movies are shot these days thanks in part to the tax credits, in part to the region's versatility as a location (and its growing infrastructure to house big productions), and in part because Hollywood has been a key player in rebuilding the area financially if not physically after Hurricane Katrina.



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