ben ouai ca s'annonce bien , le script tourne entre studio depuis des annees et a une reputation de truc de ouf . Le lendemain des oscar l'anne derniere danny boyle a annoncer abandonner le projet , il devait le tourner mais le studio trouver le scenar " too dark "

... du coup c'est repartie sur dans les carton et hop , Mann le deterre pour sa fille , tournage en avril et Mann ( papa ) a declarer vouloir livrer un film "moody " , " gritty " , "hauting " et "very hardcore" d'apres ces propres mots
Mann sur le projet et worthington
Sam read it, met Ami, and he was in. And for me, this is a dream come true to enable Ami to do this. Sam will play Jake, this tough-minded misanthropic Texan, who with his partner Brian wind up waging something of a war against these unknown assailants, a ferocious battle to save each other and the life of this young street kid.”vla la declaration de boyel au NY times en fevrier 2009 :
"Texas Killing Fields' was a fantastic script, really special script, but it was just so dark it would never get made. You'd have to have half a dozen super megastars for a studio to even consider making it…It's by an ex-cop from Galveston and visually would have been extraordinary, but I don't think that's going to happen."