Tom Cruise has a sci-fi movie he's working on and now Universal has picked Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseborough to join him.
According to Variety, the two will join Cruise for Joseph Kosinski's still untitled sci-fi flick. The script is currently being rewritten by Michael Arndt and saw earlier scripts from William Monahan and Karl Gajdusek. Production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012.
The story follows a soldier on Earth of which the surface has been destroyed by aliens. Upon discovering a woman in a crashed pod, he begins to question everything that he has been taught.
In the past the project has had names like Jessica Chastain signed on, she left the project after deciding to go to Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden film. Kurylenko was one of the the actress testing for the role with Chastain along with Olivia Wilde and Noomi Rapace
Kurylenko played a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace and will soon be seen in the series Magic City. Riseborough never tested for the part and has only been in Brit films up to this point.
