Adrien Brody will star in Robert Rodriguez's Predators, a reboot of the sci-fi franchise.

Topher Grace is in negotiations to join the action-adventure movie, to which Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The 4400), Walt Goggins (The Shield), Rodriguez mainstay Danny Trejo and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov have also been cast.

Nimrod Antal, who directed the Hungarian film Kontroll, is at the helm of the 20th Century Fox movie. Rodriguez is producing with Elizabeth Avellan.

Written by Rodriguez, Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, the script follows a group of elite warrior types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers called Predators.

Brody plays a man who ends up inheriting the role of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer.

Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, Goggins is the loose cannon of the group, and Taktarov is a former Russian special ops agent.

Trejo, already cast, is Cuchillo, a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back.

Shooting begins next month in Hawaii, then moves to moves to Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios in Austin. The movie is slated for a July 9, 2010, release.

Brody was last seen in Dario Argento's Giallo and next voices the character of Rickity in Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Grace will next be seen in the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine's Day.