Elijah Wood will head the international cast of Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's much-anticipated English-language whodunit "Oxford Murders".

Wood will play a young student who goes to Oxford to study but becomes intrigued by a murder that takes place where he lives.

This brings him under the wing of a Sherlock Holmes-style mentor, who uses logic and math symbols to try to stop a series of murders.

The Hollywood Reporter indicates that Wood joins previously announced John Hurt in the film, set to start shooting January 22nf for nine weeks in London and Oxford, England.