Produced by Michael Mann, daughter Ami Canaan Mann has directed The Texas Killing Fields but it has been stuck in limbo for a bit. The drama has gone through title and release date changes, but it now looks like we’ll finally see it in the fall. The first pieces of footage have now been unveiled in an Italian trailer for the film starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Moretz, Stephen Graham, Jessica Chastain and Annabeth Gish. The film was reportedly to be made by Danny Boyle before he went on to do 127 Hours, but he called the script “almost too dark to get made.”

While I assume a US trailer is around the corner, this first one makes it seem somewhat like a TV movie. The production value seems a bit sparse, but I’ll wait for a full HD trailer I can understand before speaking any more on the matter. Check it out below via Dread Central.

Synopsis:

This tense and haunting thriller follows a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington) in a small Texas town and his partner, a transplanted cop from New York City (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields”.
The killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When a familiar local girl, Anne (Chloe Grace Moretz), goes missing, the detectives find themselves in a race against time to find the killer and save her life.

The Texas Killing Fields will make its premiere at the Venice Film Festival with a October release date rumored.

What do you think of the first pieces of footage for this thriller?