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Back together for what will be their fourth collaboration, Variety reports that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will work next on an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel, “Shutter Island” This will make for the third book-to-film project Lehane has set off, following Mystic River and the just released, Ben Affleck directed Gone Baby Gone.

For Shutter Island, a psychological thriller set in 1954, DiCaprio will star as a U.S. Marshall, investigating the mysterious disappearance of a female inmate at a hospital for the criminally insane that presumably fled to the remote Shutter Island. Shooting is likely to begin early next year.

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