Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's much-anticipated English-language mystery Oxford Murders will star Elijah Wood in the lead role. The movie also has John Hurt and will start shooting for nine weeks in London and Oxford, England .
Wood will play the role of 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.
