Jeremy Renner is to co-star with Amy Adams in director Denis Villeneuve's upcoming science-fiction drama Story of Your Life.
The pair previously acted together in 2013's American Hustle.
The Hollywood Reporter said Renner will play a physics professor who teams up with Adams' linguistics expert to help the U.S. government communicate with aliens after spacecraft land all over the world.
Renner is known for his roles in The Avengers blockbusters, as well as in the dramas The Hurt Locker and The Town.