Academy-award winner Jennifer Connelly (The Beautiful Mind) and Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code) will take the lead roles in Liv Ullman's The Journey Home, which is based on Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson's novel of the same name. Principal photography is set to commence in Iceland and the UK in late summer. The film is produced by Jón Thór Hannesson at Sagafilm Iceland, Steve Haft (Dead Poets Society) and Peter Ker.