Chinese actress Li Bingbing has signed up to star in Nest, an English language 3D sci-fi film.
The actress will also serve as a producer on the China-Australia co-production.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film follows a team of scientists who lose a co-worker in an ancient maze while trying to make the 'discovery of a century'.
The group then have to fight their way through man-eating funnel web spiders and discover the secret behind their power.
The film is directed by Kimble Rendall who has in the past worked on the Matrix films. He made his directorial debut on Bait 3D which was also an Australia- China co-production.
It was released here in China in 2012 and grossed $25 million.
Bingbing has had leading roles in Hollywood films such as "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and "Resident Evil: Retribution."