Burger told Coming Soon:

"It's more like if there's viagra or steroids, why isn't there something that increases your synaptic connections and makes you think smarter and faster, but it's not without side effects and consequences."

These side effects including sometimes seeing the world in stop motion style, causing terrible, horrible headaches. Burger is working on a script from Leslie Dixon, who is also working on a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds . Filming for the project will begin in New York city in the winter and the movie won't be released until about 2010.

[Comingsoon.net]

LaBeouf has signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of Glynn's novel, which centers around former coke addict and current copywriter Eddie Spinola's discovery of miracle drug MTD-48, which not only makes the user more charismatic and intelligent than before, but also contains some... well, homicidal side-effects. The movie version will be written by Hairspray's Leslie Dixon (No stranger to altered states, having written the remake of Freaky Friday) and directed by The Illusionist's Neil Burger. No word yet whether CGI will be required to make Shia charismatic.

Shia LeBeouf visits 'Dark Fields' [Variety]