Editorials > Mark Ruffalo Heads to Shutter Island with DiCaprio and Scorsese

Mark Ruffalo has signed on to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ruffalo will play "U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, who travels with his new partner (DiCaprio) to the eponymous Massachusetts island in 1954. As they investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, they encounter a web of lies, a hurricane and a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island."

Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander, Pathfinder) wrote the screenplay and production is all set to begin this coming March under the supervision of producers Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer, and Martin Scorsese himself.

Lehane wrote the novels Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, both of which helped turn Boston into the new cinematic hotspot for prestige pictures.

-David Morgan