The truth is out there… and so is Gillian Anderson. The “X-Files” star has got a string of upcoming projects sure to interest genre fans, including the alien thriller I’ll Follow You Down, the zombie horror-comedy Curse of the Buxom Strumpet and a story arc on NBC’s new “Hannibal” series as Dr. Lectar’s psychologist.

Now comes word that Anderson has been cast alongside Ben Kingsley in director and co-writer Jon Wright’s new robot-apocalypse thriller Our Robot Overlords. Budgeted at $21 million and co-written by Mark Stay, the story is set three-years after a robot invasion forces survivors to live in hiding.

Anderson tells ScreenDaily:

It’s a fantastic script set in the future about a woman who has four or five kids living with her in a world run by robots and they break out in search of the father who’s gone missing.

Our Robot Overlords is slated to go into production in May. To keep up with the film’s progress, peep its Twitter feed.