Pictured (L-R) Bradley Cooper as Senator Edward Morra and Jake McDorman as Brian Finch on Limitless, to be broadcast Tuesday, Oct. 27 on the CBS Television Network. Did You Know Limitless, the Movie Starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, Was Based On a Book? After all, he penned The Dark Fields, the 2001 novel that served as the basis for the hit movie Limitless (now streaming on Peacock), directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." While there are currently no plans for more Limitless content onscreen, Glynn points interested parties to Receptor, his 2019 follow-up to The Dark Fields.