Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' in the upcoming 'The A-Team'
Heat Vision Blog reports that Bradley Cooper has replaced Shia LaBeouf in Universal's Dark Fields.
Dark Fields tells the story of a down and out writer who, after a series of coincidences, finds and takes a top-secret drug (MTD-48) that makes him smarter, faster, more intuitive, and more charismatic. The result is he becomes more successful before discovering that there are lasting side effects that go with it, and begins to learn that his finding of the drug may not have been a coincidence at all and mysterious pursuers go after him.
The film has been likened to Fight Club and The Game which had me quite interested, mainly because Fight Club is an exceptional film. But when I heard LaBeouf had the lead role I lost interest. Watching LaBeouf on screen is like nails on a black board to me.
Cooper on the other hand is an excellent actor who is more than able to convince you he's both down and out and highly intelligent, and more than capable of holding the lead in a thriller along the style of Fight Club.
Dark Fields was scheduled for release in 2010 but no exact date has yet been confirmed.
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you have to be kidding. No one is gonna watch a b movie actor as lead. Straight to video mate.
I’m going to have to beg to differ. He’s one of the lead actors in The Hangover, a top 250 movie on the IMDB and a movie that raked in $240M or so above its budget AND that is now getting a sequel. He’s also one of the leads in The A-Team and there are a lot of A-Team fans out there, sure to drag over. Many of his past films might not be critical praise worthy, but they’ve raked in over $800M collectively which is monumental after combined budgets of less than $300M.
Of course, I’m referring to films where he isn’t the lead by himself and so it is also possible that I might be proven wrong at the box office. But one thing I won’t be proven wrong about and that’s the fact that I’d much rather watch Bradley Cooper do his acting thing than Shia LaBeouf which, in the end, was the point of the article.
I think Dark Fields will score a theatrical release if some of his other films in the meantime are a hit at the box office, particularly The A-Team. If that happens he’ll become a marketable commodity, if not, well yeah, maybe straight to DVD.