Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons is in negotiations to join Chris Pratt in Ghost Draft, a sci-fi thriller from Skydance and Paramount.
Along with Simmons, GLOW star Betty Gilpin is also in talks to join the project, whose name is a working title. Chris McKay, who directed The Lego Batman Movie, is is set to direct the film.
The film is set in a future where humanity is losing a war against aliens. To turn the tide, scientists draft soldiers from the past to fight the war.
Character details are being kept under wraps, but it is understood that Simmons would play Pratt’s father.
No word on when the film will be released.