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TEXAS KILLING FIELDS Trailer Stars Sam Worthington

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, watch the new trailer for TEXAS KILLING FIELDS. The film is the true story about one man’s quest to end thirty years of unsolved murders in a frightening modern day Gomorrah – the toxic waste land of oil refineries known as the Killing Fields. With his NY transplant partner, Jake (Sam Worthington) starts to unravel the web of conspiracy and closes in on the killer and the truth. Ultimately, he will risk everything and stop at nothing to save the next innocent from becoming the last victim.

The film’s cast also includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Moretz and Jessica Chastain.

From producers Michael Mann and Michael Jaffe & writen by Don Ferrarone, TEXAS KILLING FIELDS will have it’s world premiere at the 68th Venice International Film Festival (Aug 31 – Sept 10, 2011) and then released in theaters October 7, 2011.

Sam Worthington Headed to TEXAS KILLING FIELDS

Sam Worthington’s goal of being a part of every high concept project continues, as, according to Variety, he is officially set to star in THE TEXAS KILLING FIELDS, which may be going through a name change to simply THE FIELDS.   The film is set to be produced by Michael Mann with Mann’s daughter, Ami Canaan, stepping in as the film’s director.

Worthington will be taking the lead role as one of two cops who realize a local murder may be connected to a series of unsolved murders around the oil refineries in coastal Texas.   Those murders number anywhere from 60 to 70 victims with more surfacing over the past 30 years.   The film is loosely based on a true story with Donal Ferrarone (producer on MAN ON FIRE and DEJA VU) serving as screenwriter.

Pajiba announced back in November that both Worthington and Bradley Cooper were in talks to star, but there is no word on whether Cooper was up for the role of the other detective or the role that ultimately went to Worthington.

Shooting is set to begin in April in Louisiana.   Worthington can next be seen in the remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS.