Morgan Freeman is now on board to star in the upcoming Oblivion movie, which already has awesome cast on board. As you probably know, Joseph Kosinski‘s sci-fi action movie stars Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko. According to the latest reports Freeman is set to star Malcolm Beech, the leader of the human resistance on Earth.

Based on Kosinski’s own Radical Publishing comic book series, Oblivion is set in a future where the Earth’s surface has been irradiated beyond recognition, the remnants of humanity live above the clouds, safe from the brutal alien Scavengers that stalk the ruins.

But when surface drone repairman discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off an unstoppable chain of events that will force him to question everything he knows.

Oblivion is set to open on July 19th, 2013.