Jessica Biel (Blade: Trinity) will be returning in a leading blockbuster role this summer in Total Recall, and it looks like she’ll be doing the same again next year, with word surfacing that she’s set to join Hugh Jackman on The Wolverine.

We heard recently that the cast has been increasing rapidly, with The Last Samurai’s Hiroyuki Sanada, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, and Rila Fukushima joining the project.

Twitch reported the an offer was out to Biel, and now it looks like Deadline have confirmed that Biel has accepted, which is excellent news.

Biel will be playing the role of Viper,

“a complex character who at one point was a peer of Logan’s as well as an enemy. She was a major player in criminal organization Hydra and, in one story arc, blackmailed Logan / Wolverine into marrying her.”

James Mangold (Walk the Line) will be directing, with production set to begin next month, and he’ll be directing from a script by Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), with Mark Bomback (Die Hard 4.0) doing a rewrite.

Biel has proven to be a very diverse actress, with credits ranging from action in Blade: Trinity to horror in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to rom-com with Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve. She’s definitely got an action/blockbuster streak in her that she does well, so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing her back in another blockbuster next year after Total Recall next month.

The Wolverine is set to be released on 26th July, 2013, and you can bet that’s going to be a date on everyone’s mind come summer next year. It definitely has the potential to be awesome. More as we get it.