Noomi Rapace is set to star in Tommy Wirkola’s new sci-fi thriller What Happened to Monday? Rapace will play multiple roles as septuplet sisters trying to survive in an overpopulated world where siblings are outlawed. When one goes missing, they all risk exposure to find her.

Wirkola, the writer and director of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Dead Snow, said the lead was rewritten for Rapace after meeting with her.

He said:

Although the role was originally written for a male, I was struck by the complexities of having an actor portray seven characters and immediately knew Noomi was the ideal actor — male or female — to bring them to life.

Rapace is coming off Brian de Palma’s lesbian thriller Passion and Ridley Scotts’ Prometheus. She, of course, scored her big break playing Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl Who Played with Fire, Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest).