Paris from Troy, Orlando Bloom is down to be the lead in new  drama The Good Doctor. Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons  are in negotiations to co-star.

The script from John Enbom , described as a Hitchcockian thriller, centers on a frustrated doctor looking to impress his superiors and colleagues. When his 18-year-old patient, admitted for a kidney infection, provides him with the esteem he so craves, the doctor tampers with her treatment so that she’ll have to stay at the hospital with him.

Pena will play an orderly who discovers the doctor’s budding relationship and blackmails him for prescription painkillers. Garity is a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom. Ford is a woman who has eyes for Bloom’s character.

Production is to start this week in Los Angeles.

Not sure about this one. I’m still out on the whole Orlando Bloom thing. He was great in Lord of the Rings, but since then I haven’t really been impressed with him. Even in Pirates of the Caribbean I found him a little flat. That’s just me though. What do you think about the sound of this film? Is Bloom the right man for quite a dark sounding part?