Sam Worthington is trying something different — he’s doing a movie that won’t require him to battle robots or fight blue aliens!

The Aussie actor will star in the indie thriller The Fields, directed by Ami Canaan Mann (Michael Mann’s daughter). The murder mystery will see Worthington as a Texas homicide detective who joins with a New York detective to investigate unsolved murders in the Texas bayous, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The project is scheduled to begin shooting in early April.