2 More Join McQueen's "Slave"

Ruth Negga and Scoot McNairy are set to star in Steve McQueen's upcoming feature "Twelve Years A Slave" says The Associated Press.

Set in the mid-19th century, the film tells the true story of New Yorker Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who was kidnapped and shipped off into forced labor. Eventually he was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853.

Negga will play a runaway slave while McNairy plays a circus employee.

Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Paul Dano also star.

McQueen and John Ridley (”Bobby,” “Three Kings”) wrote the script.

Production kicks off in June.