Veteran English actor Albert Finney ("A Gathering Storm") is in talks to play the lead in the murder mystery/thriller "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," reports Variety.
The indie feature, from writer/director Willard Carroll ("Playing by Heart"), will start shooting next summer in Los Angeles.
Finney would play an eccentric newspaper columnist drawn into the investigation of a murder in which none of the suspects apparently wanted the victim dead.
"Albert likes that the script has a lot of humor to undercut its noir aspects," Carroll said. "He also responded to the paternal relationship that evolves between his character and a teenage girl whom he gives shelter."