Variety is reporting that Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) has signed on to headline The Book of Vision alongside Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe) and Filippo Nigro (Suburra).

The fantasy-mystery is being directed by Carlo Hintermann, with Terrence Malick executive producing, and “follows a young Italian doctor named Eva (Verbeek) who, while studying the history of medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, discovers an 18th-century text about a Prussian doctor (dance) which hides a mystery. As Eva studies the book, she brings back to life the stories it contains.

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Italian filmmaker Hintermann served as second unit director on Malick’s The Tree of Life, and has also co-written a book and directed a documentary on the U.S. auteur. The Book of Vision marks his directorial debut, and filming is now underway in Belgium.