John Hurt will take a leading role in Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia's "Oxford Murders," based on an award-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez reports Production Weekly.
In the English-language thriller, Hurt will play an Oxford University professor & logician embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. The first victim being an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II, and as further bodies pile up more symbols are revealed. The logician teams up with a young Argentine graduate to solve the riddle.
Filming dates in Oxford and London are still under negotiation.
