Just last month, we brought you the news when Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight Rises) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) joined the cast of Universal Pictures big-screen adaptation of writer-director Joseph Kosinski‘s (Tron: Legacy) graphic novel Oblivion, opposite Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseboroug.

Now, Deadline reports that  Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Red State) has signed on to co-star in the film that sees Tom Cruise as a soldier stationed on Earth, the surface of which has been destroyed by aliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off a chain of events that cause him to question everything he knows.

Synopsis:

Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. Living and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

Oblivion is slated to hit theaters on April 26, 2013.