Tom Cruise to star in alien adventure `Yukikaze`

Los Angeles: Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is reportedly set to play the lead role in sci-fi movie ‘Yukikaze’, an adaptation of a Japanese novel series by Chohel Kamayashi.

The big-budget Hollywood film will be set three decades after alien force JAM invades Earth through a wormhole that appears over Antarctica. Cruise will star as part of a special planetary defence force, who avenge the attack by setting up bases on the aliens` planet, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Yukikaze is the name of the high-tech reconnaissance fighter plane the hero flies during his missions. The film is produced by Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally and Jason Hoffs. Kamayashi`s popular books have already been made into five award-winning films in Japan, which went straight to video. IANS