Cuban heart-stopper Eva Mendes is set to join “Mad Men” star Christina Hendricks in How to Catch a Monster, a sci-fi thriller written and directed by actor Ryan Gosling (Drive), who co-produces through his Phantasma Films with Marc Platt Productions and Bold Films.

Described as a modern day fairy tale with elements of “fantasy noir and suspense,” How to Catch a Monster finds Hendricks playing a fetish model and mother of two, who follows one of her sons to a secret under water city.

Bloody Disgusting reports that Mendes will play Cat, a member of something called “The Big Bad Wolf Club.” Co-stars include Ben Mendelsohn (Dark Knight Rises) and Rob Zabrecky. Production is slated for May.

Mendes made her movie acting debut in the 1998 home-video original Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. A lesbian role in Columbia Pictures’ teen frightener Urban Legends: Final Cut followed in 2000. A year later, she skyrocketed to fame with a very-nude dramatic role in Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day.

Since then, Mendes has mostly starred in dramas and comedies, with notable exceptions being 2007’s Ghost Rider, an adaptation of the Marvel anti-hero comic and graphic novelist Frank Miller’s solo directorial effort The Spirit, for which she went nude.