Robert De Niro leaves Edge of Darkness

Washington (ANI): Robert De Niro has quit Martin Campbell-directed drama Edge of Darkness due to 'creative differences.' The movie's shooting started less than a month ago, and the actor announced leaving the project just days after arriving on the set in Massachusetts.

"Sometimes things don't work out; it's called creative differences," Variety quoted a spokesman for the actor, as saying. De Niro had signed to play an operative sent to clean up the evidence in the murder of a young woman. Mel Gibson stars as the victim's father, a homicide detective for the Boston Police Dept. who uncovers her secret life, a corporate cover-up and government collusion.

The movie is a revamp of a 1980s TV miniseries Campbell directed for the BBC. The filmmaker is now hunting for a replacement for De Niro.