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Hot Red Head Rodeo Queen Takes to ‘The Fields’
Jessica Chastain (“ER”, “Veronica Mars”) has booked the female lead opposite Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Fields (Texas Killing Fields), a thriller being directed by Ami Canaan Mann, writes THR. Written by Don Ferrarone, the story is set in an area of coastal Texas dotted with oil refineries known to locals as “The Fields.” There, a homicide detective (Worthington) fights two sets of fierce killers to save the life of a street kid named Little Anne. Chastain plays Worthington’s ex-wife, a former rodeo queen who likewise is a homicide detective and also determined to the find the killers, with or without his help.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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