The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Elijah Wood has joined the cast of said film, titled The Oxford Murders, teaming up with John Hurt as a student who goes to the titular school to study but instead finds himself intrigued by a murder that took place in his residence there. He’s taken under wing by a Sherlock Holmes-esque mentor who uses logic and math to stop a series of murders. Wait, math? I bet it’s long division; that shit nearly killed me in junior high.
Unfortunately the film is not de la Iglesia’s usual black comedy, but he’s such a damn fine director I’m sure he can work in the confines of a straight-up thriller story with ease. Shooting on Oxford Murders starts on January 22nd and goes for nine weeks in London and Oxford.