We don’t usually post stories about wrinkly old actors on Clatto (don’t hate the player, hate the Google Analytics), but when that wrinkly old actor is Anthony Hopkins an exception must be made. The 73-year-old Academy Award winner is set to star in the new serial killer drama Solace.

Hopkins will play John Clancy, an FBI profiler with psychic abilities that is called in to assist in the hunt for a sophisticated serial killer. The script was originally written by Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin (Ravenous). Peter Morgan (Hereafter) is credited with the latest draft. No word yet on who will be directing.

Hopkins has starred in a grip of high profiled frighteners including New Line’s sleeper hit The Rite, Universal Pictures’ remake of The Wolfman, New Line’s cat-and-mouse thriller Fracture, Lee Tamahori’s survival-actioner The Edge, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.

He is best known, however, for his Oscar winning turn as Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 adaptation of author Thomas Harris’ chilling masterpiece “The Silence of the Lambs” and its sequels Red  Dragon and Hannibal.