Veteran star Anthony Hopkins has been announced as the lead actor in Timothy Woodward Jr’s upcoming directorial project ‘Eyes In The Trees’. According to Deadline, the film is a re-imagination of H.G. Wells’ 1896 science fiction novel ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’. Hopkins will play the role of a geneticist who becomes isolated after the government stops funding his research. The script for the movie is written by B. Harrison Smith and Mike Manning.