Cooper, Cornish and De Niro on Limitless

On Friday, Neil Burger’s sci-fi thriller Limitless , based on the novel “The Dark Fields,” will open nationwide, and a few weeks back, ComingSoon.net attended the New York press conferences with Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro to learn more about how the film came together.

It all began with screenwriter Leslie Dixon who found Alan Glynn’s novel in a second-hand bookshop and figured out a way to finagle the rights away from Harvey Weinstein, a feat in itself. Her and the producers brought Neil Burger on board, impressed by his 2006 film The Illusionist , which was also based on a novel. Shia LaBeouf was originally attached to play the role of Eddie Morra, but he ended up doing something else which opened the door for Bradley Cooper, star of Todd…