Another comedy movie coming. The Informant is an upcoming movie this 2009 a dark comedy trailer film directed by Steven Sodergergh that based on 2000 non fiction book the Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. The Informant movie trailer is available and free. The script is written by Scott Z. Burns and film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel MhHale and Melanie Lynskey.

Plot Summary source wikipedia

The Informant! is about Ivy League Ph.D. Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactic.

Production

In 2002, after completing Ocean’s Eleven, Soderbergh announced his intent to adapt the book The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald, a former journalist for the New York Times. Scott Z. Burns wrote the script based on the book.

Production began in May 2008 in Decatur, Illinois. Filming was also done at the former Whitacre mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, a small town about 25 miles from Decatur. Some exterior shots were done in Mesa, Arizona in November 2008. The film will be released on September 18, 2009.

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