Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in Universal Pictures techno thriller “Dark Fields” says the trades.
Based on Alan Glynn’s 2002 novel, the story centers on a young man who 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 lethal and lasting side effects, including “trip-switching,” a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality.
Leslie Dixon (“Hairspray”) adapted the screenplay and will produce, whilst Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”) will direct.
