Shutter Island is shaping up to be a serious Oscar contender just on the people involved. It's already being directed by Martin Scorsese and it stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and now Ben Kingsley, according to Variety.
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.
I'm still annoyed that Avi Arad strong-armed Sam Raimi into shoehorning Venom into Spider-Man 3, or else we might've gotten Kingsley as the Vulture, which would have been ten times better.
