News from the movie Horizons!

Universal Pictures has finally settled on Jessica Chastain to play one of the female leads in Horizons. We reported last month Jessica Chastain was one of five finalists, along with Olivia Wilde, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace and Olga Kurylenko.

The story is set in a world where the Earth has become too toxic for humans, with society moving to cities built above the clouds. Tom Cruise plays one of the last men on Earth, a repair man who discovers a mysterious woman has crash landed on the planet. They both set off on a journey that causes them to question everything they know about Earth.

The two female lead roles are the mysterious woman and Tom Cruise’s wife. It isn’t known which of these roles Jessica Chastain is in talks for. It is also believed that one of the other actresses mentioned may land the other female lead.

Joseph Kosinski is directing Horizons from a script by Karl Gajdusek and William Monahan. Joseph Kosinski created the graphic novel which the project is based on. Production is scheduled to begin this winter, with a July 19, 2013 release date already set by Universal.

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Tom’s new project Horizons (formely known as Oblivion) is on the look for it’s female lead, Variety (via Showblitz) reports. (I’d love to see Olivia Wilde get the part!). Joe Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) will be directing and the movie is set it for a July 19, 2013 release.

Here’s the article from Huffington Post:

Above all else, Tom Cruise is still a major movie star. And as such, being his film love interest is a major shot of exposure and star power, a boost A-list actresses openly seek as aggressively as they did during Cruise’s 80s and 90s heyday.

According to Variety, no fewer than five top actresses are vying to co-star with Cruise in “Horizons,” the re-titled big screen adaptation of Joseph Kosinski’s “Oblivion,” which has been retitled to “Horizons.” Cruise will play a “scavenger” court marshaled into serving as a lone soldier stuck on an uninhabitable Earth’s surface, fixing drones that protect the planet — and its sky-bound clone citizens, who live above the polluted clouds — from attacking aliens. A numbed being, when he finds a beautiful woman in a fallen ship, adventure and an awakening of a past life love ensue.

Amongst the names competing to play that beautiful woman in a fallen ship are Jessica Chastain, Olivia Wilde, and Brit Marling, three of the hottest commodities in Hollywood. Chastain has had an absolute breakout of a year in 2011, starring in “The Tree of Life,” “The Help,” and the upcoming films “The Debt,” “Take Shelter,” “Wilde Salome” and “Texas Killing Fields.”

Wilde has also had a big year, featuring in “Cowboys & Aliens,” “The Change-Up,” and set to feature in the upcoming “In Time.” She has a history with Kosinski, having co-starred in his “Tron: Legacy” in 2010.

As for Marling, she is perhaps the newest and hottest commodity; she wrote and starred in the indie hit “Another Earth,” and in 2012 will star in “Arbitrage,” “The Company You Keep,” which she wrote and will feature in with Alexander Skarsgard, and “The Company You Keep,” with Shia LaBeouf.

This is the second big leading lady hunt for a Cruise flick this month; earlier, at least three actresses tried out for the actress lead in “One Shot,” another action adaptation, with the role eventually going to Rosamund Pike.