Gary Oldman is in talks to join Kevin Costner in Ariel Vroman's next film, a sci-fi thriller called “Criminal”, TheWrap said citing an individual close to the production.

Costner will play a dangerous and unpredictable criminal who finds himself in unfamiliar territory when a dead CIA operative's skills, secrets and memories are implanted into his brain, with the government agency hoping that he will finish the mission for them. Douglas Cook and David Weisberg wrote the script.

Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Jason Bloom, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Mark Gill are exec producing, with JC Spink, Chris Bender, Kevin King producing.

Oldman will be seen in this weekend's “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”