MOVIE OF THE MONTH: MARCH 2011

                                          LIMITLESS

                                                          

Director         : Neil Burger
Camera         : Jo Willems
Distributor     : Relativity Media

Screenplay    : Leslie Dixon
Releasing on : March18, 2011
Language      : English

Ever since Alice popped down the Wonderland rabbit hole, we humans have daydreamed about pills that can transform us. If there were a pill that could make you smart, rich and powerful, the best that you could be, would you take it? Such is the intriguing premise of  Limitless, the American techno-thriller film directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, and Robert De Niro. It is based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn with the screenplay by Leslie Dixon.

Eddie Morra is an unemployed writer whose girlfriend Lindy breaks up with him. Eddie believes he has no future, but when a friend introduces him to the experimental drug NZT, Eddie becomes highly focused and highly confident. He is able to recall everything he has read, heard, or seen, and he uses the knowledge to become successful in the financial world. Business mogul Carl Van Loon sees Eddie as a potential tool to make money, but Eddie's success also attracts hitmen who pursue him for the NZT. Eddie's stash dwindles, causing him side effects, as he tries to escape being assassinated.

Limitless is based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. The film is directed by Neil Burger based on a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, who had acquired rights to the source material. Dixon wrote the adapted screenplay for less than her normal cost in exchange to be one of the film's producers. She and fellow producer Scott Kroopf approached Burger to direct the film, at the time titled The Dark Fields. For Burger, who had written and directed his previous three films, the collaboration was his first foray solely as director.With Universal Pictures developing the project, actor Shia LaBeouf was announced in April 2008 to be cast as the film's star.

The project eventually moved to development under Relativity Media with Universal distributing through Relativity's Rogue Pictures. By November 2009, actor Bradley Cooper replaced LaBeouf in the starring role.Actor Robert De Niro was cast opposite Cooper by March 2010, and The Dark Fields began filming in Philadelphia the following May. Filming also took place in New York City. Burger described the premise, "The whole movie is a ride, a kind of fever-dream crazy story constantly going off the rails. It's about the nature of power and what I'm willing to do to get that power."


Source: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-12-17-limitless17_ST_N.htm, http://www.wikipedia.org/