"Star Trek: First Contact" star Alfre Woodard ("Lily Sloane") has joined cast of Paramount's upcoming science fiction adventure "The Core."

Set to play a NASA Control chief, Woodard joins a cast that features Hilary Swank, Bruce Greenwood, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Aaron Eckhart, DJ Qualls and Tcheky Karyo.

In the film, space shuttle astronauts discover that the Earth's rotation has stopped due to a change in the planet's core temperature, and must go to the core to detonate a nuclear device and restore the planet's balance. Shooting on the film starts this month under the direction of Jon Amiel ("Entrapment").