Mark Ruffalo has ''all but signed a final contract'' to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in director Martin Scorsese's drama Shutter Island, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's 2004 novel, for Paramount and Columbia. Ruffalo will play a U.S. Marshal who along with his new partner (DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. While there, they get hit by a hurricane and trapped in a violent inmate riot. Writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis (Pathfinder) penned the adaptation and will executive produce with Lehane and Louis Phillips. Scorsese's Sikelia Prods. and DiCaprio's Appian Way will also produce along with Phoenix Pictures. Shooting is scheduled to start in March. Ruffalo will next star opposite Julianne Moore in Fernando Meirelles' Blindness for Miramax and alongside Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz in Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom for Summit Entertainment. (Hollywood Reporter)
