Shia LaBeouf is making a trip to "
The Dark Fields," a thriller Neil Burger is directing for Universal. Leslie Dixon and Scott Kroopf are producing.
The story, by Dixon, follows a loser (LaBeouf) 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. The thriller is said to be in the vein of "Fight Club" and "The Game."