Whitaker volunteers for Experiment

Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker will headline the cast of “The Experiment”, a remake of the terrific German movie “Das Experiment”, according to Variety.

Youngsters Adrien Brody, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet (“Twilight”) have also joined the cast of the Paul Scheuring (TVs “Prison Break”) written/directed piece.

“Das Experiment,” directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, centered on a group of ordinary men recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study and examined how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affected the participants. Brody will portray the de facto leader of the prisoners while Whitaker will play a guard who’s corrupted by the power he’s given.

The Nikon starts capturing the magic next month in Captain Kirk’s birthplace, Iowa.