Kevin Costner has signed up for new film Hidden Figures, joining Taraji P Henson and Octavia Spencer.
The movie focuses on a team of African-American women who provided NASA with important mathematical data that helped them launch one of their first missions.
Henson plays the main role of Katherine Johnson, who with her colleagues was behind the launch and safe return of astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
Costner will play the head of the space programme in the film, which is based on the book Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Ted Melfi (St Vincent) is attached to direct and produce.
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