David Duchovny steps aboard Phantom

Star of TV series X-Files and Californication, David Duchovny, has enlisted for the role of a Soviet special forces leader aboard the submarine adventure thriller Phantom, reports Variety.

Replacing Andy Garcia, Duchovny joines his Californication co-star Natascha McElhone, along with Ed Harris and William Fichtner.

The movie is set during the Cold War, and Duchovny plays the haunted captain of a Soviet submarine who holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Directed by Todd Robinson (Lonely Hearts, TV’s America’s Most Wanted), filming is expected to begin in a few days in Long Beach, California.

Duchovny has been busy these days. The 51-year-old actor with a Masters degree in English literature recently finished filming his fifth season in the role of novelist Hank Moody in Californication.

The actor is awaiting a release date for the comedy Goats costarring Vera Farmiga, Ty Burrell, Keri Russell and Minnie Driver, and will also star in the comedy drama Relative Insanity – a modern-day adaption of the Anton Chekhov’s classic play The Seagull.