Anthony Hopkins joins Arabian Nights.

Anthony Hopkins is keeping himself busy on the back of Thor, according to Heat Vision Blog he is in the final reels of negotiations to sign on to Chuck Russell’s Arabian Nights.

The film is a period epic [is this the new 3D fad] written by Russell and Barry P. Ambrose, it centres on the already cast Liam Hemsworth, a young commander who joins forces with Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Genie in the lamp in a bid to rescue their queen, Scheherazade, after the king is murdered in a coup.

Hopkins will return to his villainous roots as Pharotu, an evil sorcerer who killed Sinbad’s love of the path to amass more magic.

Cameras are set to roll at the end of the summer.

MATT RICHARDSON