Natalie Dormer will star in Patient Zero.

The Game of Thrones actress has been cast in director Stefan Ruzowitzky's action thriller, Digital Spy reports citing Deadline.

The film centres around a mutated form of rabies that creates a new species, addicted to violence and with its own emerging language.

A talented survivor, who can communicate with the predators, leads a hunt for patient zero and a potential cure to the epidemic.

Dormer will next be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2.

Patient Zero is yet to announce its release schedule.