Amber Heard Starts Trouble In "London Fields"

Deadline reports that Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Jim Sturgess, and Theo James are all set to star in the black comedy murder mystery adaptation "London Fields".

Based on British author Martin Amis' book--In the story Heard plays a hypnotic and clairvoyant femme fatale in London's underworld who sets a plan in motion to fulfil the prophecy of her own murder. Her web entangles a terminally ill writer (Thornton), a street hustler (Sturgess) and an unhappily married banker (James). The writer convinces her to let him document her manipulations in a book

Mathew Cullen's calling action using an adapted script by Amis and Roberta Hanley.

"Elizabeth" and "The Four Feathers" director Shekhar Kapur, Michael Winterbottom and David Cronenberg have been previously attached to call action.

Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner and Geyer Kosinski will produce the film.

 Production gets underway this week in London ahead of a late 2014 release.