Channing Tatum ("She's the Man", "Step Up") has joined Kimberly Peirce's "Stop Loss" alongside Ryan Phillippe for Paramount Pictures reports Variety.

The Iraq war drama tells the story of a soldier (Phillippe) who finishes a tour of duty in Iraq only to be told that he has to serve another so he goes AWOL. Tatum plays a hot-shot fighter from Texas.

Shooting was gearing up to start in April but the casting process took longer than expected.