Are Bradley Cooper and Sam Worthington coming aboard the project, “The Texas Killing Fields,” that Danny Boyle abandoned earlier this year?
Boyle told MTV in February, “Texas Killing Fields’ was a fantastic script, really special script, but it was just so dark it would never get made. You’d have to have half a dozen super megastars for a studio to even consider making it. It’s by an ex-cop from Galveston and visually would have been extraordinary, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
Well, according to Pajiba it is going to happen and Cooper and Worthington — Hollywood It Men, seemingly always brought up in conjunction with some new action drama — are a part of it.
Apparently Michael Mann is producing, and his daughter Ami Mann — a second unit director on “Heat” — is in line to take the directorial reigns.
Details are apparently scarce and it’s evidently about “two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas — along Interstate 45 near Calder Road in League City.”
Pajiba has come out of nowhere with a lot of “scoops” lately, but they’d honestly never been on our radar before. But their Peter Berg leaving “Dune” story apparently turned out to be true, so we cautiously optimistic about their work and hope this is true as it sounds rather promising. Though knowing now-becoming-A-list actors like Worthington and Cooper, they become attached to a lot of things, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll make them. Also, Hollywood, please expand beyond Worthington, Cooper and Ryan Reynolds for every male project please. There are better actors out there (though Cooper so far really hasn’t had a misstep aside from appearing in a Sandra Bullock film).