Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Viggo Mortensen is reuniting with director David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises, a thriller being produced by Paul Webster for Focus Features and BBC Films.

Penned by Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things"), the story is kicked into gear after a Russian prostitute dies during childbirth and a nurse is dragged into an underworld involving the Russian mob.

Mortensen will play a mysterious man with ties to the mob.