Kingsley to star with Oscar winning actress
British actor Sir Ben Kingsley is to star with Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly in a new film.
Sir Ben and Connelly, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in A Beautiful Mind, will appear together in The House of Sand and Fog.
US trade newspaper Variety reports that the £10 million film is an adaptation of a best-selling novel by Andre Dubus III.
The book was written by the son of the author whose short story was the basis for Oscar-nominated film In the Bedroom starring Tom Wilkinson.
The House of Sand and Fog tells the story of an immigrant whose dreams go wrong.
In the film, Kingsley plays a former colonel in the Iranian military who wins an auction for a house.
But the alcoholic - played by Connelly - who previously owned it and lost it becomes determined to get the house back at any cost.
The author Dubus will also have a walk-on part in the film.
