Neil Burger's 'The Dark Fields' To Hit Theaters March 18, 2011

Neil Burger's "The Dark Fields" has now been given a March 18th, 2011 release as the film prepares to begin shooting this May in Philadelphia.

The film, starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro, will center on a writer (Cooper) whose dependency on a designer "viagra for the brain" drug hits a stumbling block when his stocks dwindle. The writer must then venture into the drug's dark past to feed his habit all while suffering the drug's side effects of sanity-splitting headaches, spontaneous blackouts, violent outbursts. De Niro will play financial mogul pursuing Cooper while Cornish role is still unknown, presumably a love interest for Cooper.

The techno-thriller is based on an Allan Glynn novel of the same name and is being sold as "Fight Club" meets "The Game" — both of which were David Fincher films. The film will also feature a phenomenon called "trip-switching" where time moves with a stop-motion quality which will be interesting to see on the big screen.