Sam Worthington is trying something different. For a change he’s doing a movie which won’t require him to stand in front of a blue screen pretending to fight blue aliens or angry robots. Instead THR says he’s going Texan to play a lone star state local homicide detective teamed up with a New York detective to solve a series of murders in the bayou.

The movie is called The Fields and as a lifelong Texan let me the first to say… what bayou? I’ve been up and down every part of the state and never encountered a single alligator. Granted Texas is huge and I suppose you could find a few swampy areas somewhere, if you looked hard enough. Things get pretty moist down around Houston. But it’s not exactly the ideal setting for a bayou murder mystery. That’s kind of a job for Louisiana, with its endless supply of mud and mosquitoes.

Apparently though, this is based on a true story, told in a screenplay written by Don Ferrarone. But saying you’re setting a movie in the swamps of Texas is kind of like saying you’re setting a movie in the deep Texas woods. Ok sure, you’ll find a few trees grouped together out in the extreme eastern portions of the state, but at no point will you ever confuse it with the forest moon of Endor. Texas is so big that it contains a sampling of every type of terrain, but unless you’re talking about wide-open prairies, it’s kind of like the dollar store version of whatever terrain it is that’s swimming around in your head.

So it comes as no surprise to learn that even though the movie is theoretically set in Texas they’ll actually be shooting it in Louisiana where, you know, they have swamps. Sam Worthington is scheduled to show up there and start shooting in early April.