Robert De Niro moves into 'Dark Fields'

Robert De Niro, last seen in "Everybody's Fine," is joining Bradley Cooper in "Dark Fields," a thriller Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") is directing for Relativity Media. The film is based on a novel by Alan Glynn, and Leslie Dixon wrote the script.

Cooper will play a New York writer whose life changes when he comes across a pill that enables him to access the full capacity of his brain. That's when strange forces begin to haunt him. Variety says De Niro plays a mogul hunting Cooper.