If you listened to this past week’s Empire Podcast (it’s squatting at the bottom of the page if not), you might have heard Alan Rickman talking up his next film, set in Victorian England. Now we have a few more details to offer up about **The Limehouse Golem{
Based on Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 novel, the film will be a murder mystery set in London in 1880, where a series of gruesome murders has shaken the Limehouse district. Fingers begin to point to the suspect being a golem, a figure from Jewish mythology.
Rickman is aboard to star alongside Douglas Booth and Olivia Cooke, with Juan Carlos Medina directing and Kingsman’s Jane Goldman adapting the script. The cameras, as Rickman has said, should be cranking in July.
The actor has his latest directorial effort,** A Little Chaos**, in UK cinemas now and will also be seen in drone pic Eye In The Sky. Next year, he’ll once more be lending his voice as the Blue Caterpillar in Alice In Wonderland sequel Through The Looking Glass, which is set to arrive on May 27.