Earlier this month, we brought you the news when Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures announced that Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire, Machine Gun Preacher) had been officially cast as the villainous General Zod in director Zack Snyder‘s (300, Sucker Punch) forthcoming Superman reboot, entitled Man of Steel.

Now, Variety reports that German actress Antje Traue (Pandorum) has scored the female villain role of Faora in Man of Steel. Though there are multiple versions of Faora throughout comic book history, they are speculating that the film will use “the version of Faora that debuted in Action Comics #779 as a Pokolistanian aide of General Zod. That character was an orphan metahuman with the ability to disrupt molecular bonds, which allowed her to create a mutagenic virus that served as the linchpin of Zod’s plan.”

Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner is slated to hit theaters in 2012.