VIDEO : Oscar Winner Jared Leto to Star in the New Action Thriller 'The Outsider'

Jared Leto (Getty Images) Los Angeles - Jared Leto has signed up for action thriller The Outsider. The actor -who won an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club - will take on the lead role in the post-WWII Japan movie which tells the story of an imprisoned American soldier who is released with some help from his cellmate, who is a member of the yakuza (organised crime syndicate). After his release he must repay his debt as he finds himself caught up in Japan's criminal underworld.