Rose Byrne, a woman who's consistently great in any role she's given yet has never seemed to quite break through to the big time, has landed a leading role in Knowing, alongside Nicolas Cage.
Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
The film is set to be directed by Alex Proyas, who's been very quiet since making I, Robot four years ago. He'll begin shooting later this month in Australia.