Melissa Benoist to Star in New Movie with Sam Heughan

Supergirl’s Melissa Benoist has landed a new role. The star will join Outlander’s Sam Heughan in the new romantic movie, Oxford.

The movie’s synopsis reads, “Soon after arriving at Oxford U, an American Rhodes Scholar student (Benoist) falls for an arrogant teaching assistant (Heughan) who is quietly fighting terminal cancer. When she finds out the reason he is so standoffish, they make the most of each day, traveling the world together.

The film is being distributed by Screen Gems and will most likely be released in 2016 or 2017. Are you excited to see these two in a movie together?