Ben Kingsley has signed on to co-star in Martin Scorsese's period thriller "
Shutter Island" for Paramount Pictures.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star as a U.S. marshal who is sent to the remote New England island in summer 1954 to investigate the disappearance of a patient from the island's prison/mental hospital. Mark Ruffalo has already boarded the project. Kingsley will portray the mental hospital's chief physician.