Tatiana Seigel of Variety:Ben Kingsley has signed on to co-star in Martin Scorsese's period thriller "Shutter Island" for Paramount Pictures.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star as a U.S. marshal who is sent to the remote New England island in summer 1954 to investigate the disappearance of a patient from the island's prison/mental hospital. Mark Ruffalo has already boarded the project. Kingsley will portray the mental hospital's chief physician.
Laeta Kalogridis adapted the screenplay based on a novel by Dennis Lehane.
Pic is a co-production of Phoenix Pictures, Scorsese's Sikelia and DiCaprio's Appian Way banners. Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and Scorsese will produce. Lehane, Kalogridis and Louis Phillips will exec produce.
"Shutter Island" will mark Kingsley's first collaboration with Scorsese.
Kingsley, who is shooting the Mike Myers comedy "The Love Guru," has several films in the can, including "Elegy" and "The Wackness."
Kingsley is one of the best at what he does-teaming with Scorsese should produce some on screen gold.
So "Bald Ben" is hot again - eh? He's a great actor.
ReplyDeleteAs much as Patrick Stewart rocked as Professor X - Kingsley may have been better. As he showed with his Oscar win for GHANDI he has a quiet, paternal authority, with intense compassionate intelligence.
Like I'd said in a previous post, Stewart "blew-up" after X-Men and got a bit fat headed. I truly think Kingsley should have gotten the role.