HORIZONS (Cast News)

• HORIZONS

Jessica Chastain

Tree of Life and The Help actress Jessica Chastain hasreportedly won one of the two female leads in Horizons, an upcoming sci-fi filmstarring Tom Cruise and directed by Tron: Legacy's Joseph Kosinski.

Variety reminds us that Horizons "revolves around asoldier stationed on a future Earth, the surface of which was destroyed byaliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets offa chain of events that cause him to question everything he knows."

The trade doesn't specify which of those two main femaleroles Chastain has won, but adds that other recently reported candidatesincluding Olivia Wilde, Brit Marling and Noomi Rapace also tested and couldlikely win the other female lead.

Horizons, which is based on Kosinski's graphic novelOblivion, is slated to begin shooting next year for a July 19, 2013 release.