Just last month, we brought you the news when Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Hitman) and Andrea Riseborough (Being Human, Resistance) scored the two female lead roles in the Universal Pictures big-screen adaptation of writer-director Joseph Kosinski‘s (Tron: Legacy) graphic novel Oblivion.

Now, Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight Rises) has joined the cast, in a so-far-unrevealed “critical” role in the film starring Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) 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.

Oblivion is slated to hit theaters on July 19th, 2013.