“The Stanford Prison Experiment,” a movie based on Emeritus Psychology Prof. Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 experiment, is scheduled to begin filming on campus in October, according to a Variety Magazine report last week.

The movie will tell the story of Zimbardo’s famous study, for which student volunteers were assigned roles of mock prison guards and prisoners. Zimbardo, who delivered his final lecture in March, was required to prematurely end the experiment due to the intensity of the volunteers, who began to believe that they were in an actual prison.

Co-written by Christopher McQuarrie and Tim Talbott, the film will feature Ryan Phillippe, Kieran Culkin, Paul Dano, Jesse Eisenberg, Charlie Hunnam, Ben McKenzie and Channing Tatum. Icon Entertainment has acquired international sales rights.

McQuarrie, who will also be directing the movie, won an original screenplay Oscar for “The Usual Suspects” in 1996. He also directed the 2000 film “Way of the Gun,” and he is currently writing and producing a World War II project with Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise called “Valkyrie.”