Cinema Science

Mark Ruffalo has apparently all but signed a final contract to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in director Martin Scorsese's drama Shutter Island, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's 2004 novel. Ruffalo will play a U.S. Marshal who along with his new partner (DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. While there, they get hit by a hurricane and trapped in a violent inmate riot. Shooting is scheduled to start in March. Ruffalo will next star opposite Julianne Moore in Fernando Meirelles' Blindness and alongside Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz in Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom.