What's the Difference between The Dark Fields the Book and Limitless the Movie?
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Eddie Spinola
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Eddie Morra
Portrayed by: Bradley Cooper
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Carl Van Loon
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Carl Van Loon
Portrayed by: Robert DeNiro
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This Character does not appear.
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Lindy
Portrayed by: Abbie Cornish
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In the Movie |
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Eddie is off MDT because of the blackouts. When Gennady comes for the second payment, he reveals to Eddie that he took the pills and wants more. He threatens Eddie with a knife and Eddie tells him it will take him some time to get more. Gennady tells him to get him 50 or more pills, but Eddie says he can only get 10. |
Gennady comes to Eddie after Lindy dumps him the second time. Eddie is back on NZT. Gennady tells him he wants more of the drug or he will kill him. Eddie gives Gennady a few pills to keep him off his back. |
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Eddie realizes that without MDT he can't work for Carl Van Loon. He goes to his apartment to tell him, but has a panic attack. He meets Ginny Van Loon and she tells him he looks bad. He goes to LaFayette trading to try it without the super smarts. He is still taking one pill but it isn't helping him. He buys a bunch of tech stocks and then has a panic attack. He leaves the trading floor and returns home. When he gets there he sees on the television that the stock market has crashed. The tech bubble has burst and he lost all his money. |
This doesn't happen.
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There is a situation developing between the US and Mexico. The US Secretary of defense said some disparaging things about Mexico. The attack on Donatella Alvarez, who was Mexican causes a serious rift and there are outbreaks of violence. |
None of this happens. |
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Eddie finds Deke Tauber's name in Vernon's notebook. He has become a guru of sorts. Eddie contacts a private investigator that is looking for kids who have entered Deke's cult. He gets the phone records and they find Vernon's associate, Todd who works at United Labtech. They go there, but find out Todd doesn't work there anymore. Eddie figures out that Deke must have been giving the people MDT so they could start a new life. Sure enough Eddie calls the other names on the phone records, people who are big time executives, and they are all out sick because of the stop of the MDT supply. |
This doesn't happen.
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Carl's Company is setting up the merger between Hank Atwood's company MCL and Dan Bloom's company Abraxas. |
Carl's company is merging with Hank Atwood's company. |