Charlize Theron has signed to star opposite Penelope Cruz in the upcoming historical drama
Head in the Clouds, reports
Variety.
The project, to be directed by the Australian "new wave" director John Duigan, has also snapped up Stuart Townsend and Thomas Kretschmann and will start shooting March 17 in Montreal and on location in Paris and London.
Set in 1930s England, the Spanish Civil War and the last days of the occupation of Paris, story follows the adventures of a young Cambridge student (Townsend) whose world is changed forever by a passionate affair with a hedonistic photographer (Theron). Cruz plays a Spanish refugee who shares their lives until war intervenes and threatens to separate them forever.