Elijah Wood To Star in Mystery

Wood will join John Hurt for the film Oxford Murders.  Filming is set to begin on January 22, and will continue for nine weeks in London.

Elijah Wood will play a young man who is studying at Oxford.  When he becomes intrigued by a murder that takes place where he lives, he is taken under the wing of a Sherlock Holmes-type mentor who uses logic and math symbols to stop a series of murders.