Ben Kingsley is set to appear as Dr. Squires in The Wackness, a dark comedy that comes out nationwide in August.

Following that part, the Academy Award winner will take on the role of a psychiatrist again in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.

“I play another psychiatrist, but very different from Dr. Squires. Very sober, very against the use of drugs in therapy, and also very against the use of surgical intervention in therapy,” said Kingsley.

As for his costar in Shutter Island, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kingsley simply said: “He and I have some very, very strong scenes together.”

Here’s an update on the cast of Shutter Island:

Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Max von Sydow (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl, Lovely and Amazing) have been cast in Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama.

These actors join a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams,and Patricia Clarkson.

The story, adapted from Dennis Lehane’s 2004 novel, is about a pair of U.S. marshals (DiCaprio and Ruffalo) who travel to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Michelle Williams - best known for her roles in Dawson’s Creek and Brokeback Mountain - is the latest actor to join the cast of Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming feature Shutter Island.

According to Variety, the actress will play the wife of Leonardo Di Caprio’s character, joining an already strong cast that includes Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley.

The Hollywood Reporter states that Ben Kingsley will join Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, a film based on the 2004 novel by Dennis Lehane.

Shooting is set to begin in March.

Laeta Kalogridis adapted the screenplay about “a U.S. marshal (Ruffalo) 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.

During their inquiry, the two encounter a web of deceit, experience a hurricane and become involved in a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island.”

Mark Ruffalo will star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s drama Shutter Island, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In Laeta Kalogridis’ adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s 2004 novel, Ruffalo will portray U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, who travels with his new partner (DiCaprio) to the eponymous Massachusetts island in 1954.

As they investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, they encounter a web of lies, a hurricane and a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island.

The film is set to begin shooting in March and will be released some time in 2009.

They’re at it again. And movie lovers should be grateful.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for their fourth film together, with Variety reporting the latest to be called Shutter island.

The drama is set in 1954, with DiCaprio in final talks to play U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels. He’s investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

Production for the movie begins in March 2008.

Previously, DiCaprio and Scorsese have worked together on Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed.