The Oxford Murders - 2008

The Oxford Murders - 2008

November 1993. Wood plays Martin, an American student at Oxford University who wants Arthur Seldom (Hurt) as his thesis director. In a public lecture, Seldom quotes Wittgenstein's Tractatus to deny the possibility of truth. Martin contests asserting his faith in the mathematics under reality. Later, Martin and Seldom coincide and find Martin's landlady (also a friend of Seldom's) murdered. Seldom declares to the police that he had received a note with his friend's address marked as "the first of a series". As Seldom is an authority on logical series, he suspects that a serial murderer is defying his intelligence. Martin, Seldom and Lorna (Leonor Watling), a Spanish nurse, will try to guess the following terms of the series as murders continue.

Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Produced by Kevin Loader and Gerardo Herrero
Written by Jorge Guerricaechevarria (screenplay), Álex de la Iglesia (screenplay) and Guillermo Martínez (novel)
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Release Date: TBA 2008

Casts:

• Elijah Wood - Martin, an American student
• John Hurt - Arthur Seldom, a British authority on logical series.
• Leonor Watling - Lorna, a Spanish nurse
• Julie Cox - Beth, a musician, daughter of Mrs Eagleton.
• Dominique Pinon - father of an ill girl.
• Burn Gorman - Podorov, a crank mathematician
• Jim Carter - Inspector Petersen
• Anna Massey - Mrs Eagleton, Martin's landlady and Seldom's friend.
• Alex Cox - Kalman, a demented mathematician
• Tom Frederic - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Roque Baños - Director
• Alan David - Mr. Higgins
• Tim Wallers - Defence Lawyer
• Ian East - Howard Green, planner of a perfect crime
• Charlotte Asprey - Howard Green's Wife
• Martin Nigel Davey - Professor Wilkes

Plot Summary: Elijah Wood plays 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 (John Hurt), who uses logic and math symbols to try to stop a series of murders.