Stanley Tucci is set to play a villain in upcoming movie Patient Zero, which also stars Natalie Dormer and Matt Smith.
The 54-year-old actor will take on the role of a professor who, after becoming infected, wants to destroy the laboratory to ensure a cure cannot be found, according to Deadline.
Stefan Ruzowitzky's film centres on a global pandemic that causes the evolution of a new species, addicted to violence and with its own language.
However a gifted human survivor who has the ability to speak the mutant's language leads a hunt for patient zero and a potential cure to the epidemic.
Stanley will next be seen in Wild Card.
