“Big Love” alumna Cassi Thomson has replaced Ashley Tisdale in Cloud Ten Pictures upcoming remake of Left Behind, a 2001 Rapture rejects thriller based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s bestselling Christian novel.

Thomson steps into the role of Chloe Steele, the daughter of an adulterous airline pilot (Nicolas Cage), looking for her mother and brother in a post apocalyptic world. What she doesn’t know is that the good have experienced the Rapture and are now sitting next to to God and Kirk Cameron in Heaven.

Chloe and her father have been left behind with the faithless for seven chaotic years, at the end of which they must decide whether to join Team Christ or Team Anti-Christ. According to Variety, production on the remake got underway on Friday in Baton Rouge, La.

Vic Armstrong (Army of One) directs from a script by Paul Lalonde and John Patus, writers of the original franchise. Co-stars include pop singer Jordin Sparks, Martin Klebba (Zombieland), Nicky Whelan (7500) and Chad Michael Murray (“One Tree Hill”) as Tribulation Force founder Buck Williams