Back in March, we told you about Walt Disney Pictures hiring Karl Gajdusek (Trespass) to rewrite William Monahan‘s (The Departed) draft of the script for the big-screen adaptation of Joseph Kosinski‘s graphic novel entitled Oblivion, a story set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans have been forced to live in clouds above the uninhabitable Earth below. At the time, the project was also renamed from Oblivion to Horizons.

Just two weeks after that, Disney decided not to move forward with the project at all, leaving Joseph Kosinski and Radical Publishing the ability to shop the project to other studios and producers.

Now, Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has nabbed the rights to the project and Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) has signed on to star as a “soldier who’s stuck alone on the planet, repairing the drones that patrol and destroy a savage alien life form. He encounters a beautiful woman who crashes in a craft, and their experience together forces him to question his world view.”

No release date has been announced.