Paramount has released the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max Von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson and Jackie Earle Haley.
Based on a Dennis Lehane novel (he wrote Mystic River, and he's written episodes of The Wire), the story is set in the 1950s and sees DiCaprio as a US Marshall investigating a disappearance at an island-based insane asylum.
Scorsese's fourth collaboration with DiCaprio (after Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed) is a particularly intriguing prospect, since it looks like it has more in common with his 1991 Cape Fear remake (and Silence of the Lambs, and The Wicker Man) than anything he's made since. Cape Fear is great, but Scorsese has all but disowned it in recent years as a work-for-hire.
There's more than a hint of the supernatural here, but are they red herrings? Current release date: October 9th.
Elsewhere in Leo World, MTV reports that Todd McFarlane wants him to appear in his new take on demon superhero Spawn. Er, huh?!