Viggo Mortensen
LOS ANGELES - American actor Viggo Mortensen will team up again
with Canadian director David Cronenberg, who directed him in "A
History of Violence," for an action flick set in London, the
entertainment press reported Tuesday.
Mortensen, 47, also known for his role in Peter Jackson's "Lord of
the Rings" trilogy, will play a business man caught up in an affair
of vengeance involving the Russian mafia and a nurse investigating
the death of a prostitute, Variety said.
The film, "Eastern Promises," is to be produced by Focus Features,
an offshoot of Universal that also financed "The Secret of Broke
Back Mountain".
Cronenberg also directed "Spider" (2002) and "Crash" (1996).