After receiving his first Oscar nomination for his role as Pat in David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper's 2013 is off to a great start and there is some more good news for the actor, with Deadline revealing that Warner Bros. has paid a huge six figure sum to get the rights to Howard Blum's forthcoming book Dark Invasion as a vehicle for Cooper to star and co-produce.
The book is in the vein of a true spy thriller and is set in 1915, against a backdrop of war raging in Europe and the U.S. still neutral. Germany decides to send their Secret Service to America to wage a covert war to keep the U.S from helping the Allies. The Kaiser’s spies bomb factories, sabotage ships, shoot JP Morgan Jr (a financier of the Allies), bomb the U.S. Capitol Building, and set up an anthrax lab six miles from the White House. Cooper is attached to play NYPD Captain Tom Tunney, who’s tasked with establishing the team that will bring these German spies to justice.
Bradley Cooper will no doubt be very much in demand in 2013, and we'll also see him in several films this year, including Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines as well as the final film in Todd Phillips’ comedy trilogy, The Hangover Part III.