While Tom Cruise continued to work on Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot, pre-production work began on his next project OBLIVION, recently re-titled from Horizons, the follow-up film from Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
Mike Fleming at Deadline confirmed today that Morgan Freeman joined the movie in an unknown but significant role.
Late last year, Deadline reported on a series of actresses including Kate Beckinsale, Hayley Atwell from Captain America: The First Avenger and Diane Kruger all flying to Pittsburgh to read with Cruise for the female roles.
Kosinski ended up hiring Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko.
Cruise signed on to play a soldier stuck on the wasteland surface that's future Earth repairing robots and fighting aliens while the rest of the human population lives safely in the clouds. Universal Pictured continued to change the name back and forth from the project's original title Oblivion to Horizons in order to avoid confusion with the video game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; so for now, fans started calling it the untitled Tom Cruise sci-fi movie.
Kosinski wrote the graphic novel for Horizons while finishing work on Tron: Legacy with Radical Publishing execs Barry Levine and Jesse Berger coming aboard to produce the film. Michael Arndt continued working on an update of the latest draft from William Monahan and Karl Gajdusek.
Universal scheduled the sci-fi adventure to be in theaters July 19, 2013.
Any thoughts on Cruise's female co-stars? Personally, I think Riseborough and Kurylenko sound fantastic.