Angela Bassett has joined the cast of Yari Film Group's Nothing but the Truth. According to Variety, Noah Wyle has also come aboard this Rod Lurie thriller.

Bassett will play the editor-in-chief of a Washington-based daily newspaper. One of her reporters has outed a CIA agent in an article and is sent to jail for refusing to name her source. Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix and David Schwimmer also star in the project.

The film is set to go into production before the end of the year.

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