For a while now, District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp has been busy putting together a new sci-fi project, Elysium, and now he’s added a new actress to the cast list, as Deadline reports Alice Braga has signed up for the movie.
At the moment it isn’t known what role the actress will play – but then Blomkamp hasn’t revealed much about the movie at all – although she joins a cast that already includes Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, and Wagner Moura.
Neill Blomkamp is directing Elysium from his own screenplay. Story details have been kept under wraps, although it is believed to be set in outer space and feature the same allegorical tones as Neill Blomkamp’s first movie, District 9. It also been said Foster will play the head of state of an alien planet, while Fichtner is a con man.
Filming is due to start this summer, with a March 2013 release already set.