Scorsese’s Shutter Island Teaser
Guys over at RopeOfSilicon give us our first look at a peice of teaser art from the pages of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming thriller “Shutter Island.” The film is Laeta Kalogridis‘ adaptation of the Dennis Lehane’s novel.
The film takes place on a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, where U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner (Ruffalo) are sent to find a murderous patient Rachel Solando who escaped from the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
“Shutter Island” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Teddy Daniels), Mark Ruffalo (Chuck Aule), Ben Kingsley (Dr. John Cawley), Michelle Williams (Dolores Chanal), Emily Mortimer (Rachel Solando), and Jackie Earle Haley (George Noyce) is scheduled to hit theaters on October 2nd, 2009.
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Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley and Max von Sydow join ‘Shutter Island’
Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama ‘Shutter Island’ AKA ‘Ashecliffe’ which was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Dennis Lehane’s 2004 novel.
The film follows the story of Teddy (DiCaprio) and his partner (Ruffalo) who travel to Shutter Island to investigate the escape of Rachel Solando, a murderess, from the mental institution on the Island.
They then find themselves trapped on the island thanks to a pesky hurricane.
The three join Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson.
Von Sydow will play one of the hospital’s physicians, while Mortimer will play Rachel, an escaped hospital patient. Haley will play an inmate.
Production is set to begin on March 6.
Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ Renamed
It’ll now be known as ‘Ashecliffe’. That’s the new name for Martin Scorsese’s next, according to The Boston Herald.
The film which was formerly known as ‘Shutter Island’ is based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, set in 1954, about a US Marshall (Leonardo DiCaprio) investigating the escape of a murderess who is presumed to be hiding on Shutter Island. Ashecliffe is the name of the mental facility.
