For the upcoming post-apocalyptic flick Oblivion, Morgan Freeman will star alongside Tom Cruise.
Deadline reports that Freeman has signed on for the Universal Pictures project being directed by Joseph Kosinski. Also in the cast with Freeman and Cruise are Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko
In the movie, Cruise plays the last man on a nearly uninhabitable Earth who stays on the planet to repair ships and hunt down an alien species. Variety's Jeff Sneider tweeted that Freeman will play a character named Malcolm Beech who is the leader of the human resistance on Earth.