Doctor Who star Matt Smith has joined the cast of Patient Zero, a new action-thriller about the fight against a global pandemic.

Smith appear star alongide Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer in the movie.

Deadline reports that the movie follows an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies that has resulted in the evolution of a new species driven by violence. An inexplicably immune human survivor with the ability to communicate with this new species must spearhead a hunt for Patient Zero in order to find a cure to save his infected wife and humanity.

Patient Zero is directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Deadfall) and written by Mike Le.

Smith will also be seen with another Game of Thrones actress, Emilia Clarke, in next year’s Terminator: Genisys movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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