Three more joins Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND

Martin Scorsese's highly anticipated follow-up to his Academy Award winning film The Departed will begin production in two weeks time and just as Scorsese has liked to do recently, he is once again filling his cast with several great actors in supporting roles. Though Paramount's Shutter Island is still someway from matching the truly incredible cast that made his last movie one of the best ensembles I have ever seen on screen. The Hollywood Reporter say that Emily Mortimer (an escaped patient), Jackie Earle Haley (an inmate) and the legendary Max Von Sydow (hospital physician) have all joined the film which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as two U.S. marshals who travel to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a criminally insane patient. Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson and Michelle Williams (in her first role since the death of Heath Ledger) round out the rest of the cast, all of which have been signed on for some weeks now. The movie kinda sounds like it will end up being a mix between The Wicker Man and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but that is completely coming from someone who has never read the novel. The author of the book for Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane - has had great success with his novels Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone which have both been translated into terrific movies and provided material to earn Oscar nominations for some of the actors involved. Let's hope we get a hat trick on that front and with Scorsese behind the picture, I just can't see how this won't be amazing.