Julianna Margulies to join Richard Gere in Three Christs'

AFTER wrapping up "The Good Wife," the American actress is already lining up a new role on the cast of "Three Christs," Deadline.com reports.

After playing the lead role in "The Good Wife" for almost eight years, Julianna Margulies is now heading for the movies. According to a report in Entertainment Weekly, she's set to join the cast of the latest movie from Jon Avnet.

The Amercian actress will star alongside Richard Gere, who'll be playing a psychiatrist in the upcoming film. Julianna Margulies will play his wife.

Based on the biographical novel "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti" by Milton Rokeach -- adapted for the big screen by Eric Nazarian and Jon Avnet -- the plot follows a psychiatrist in charge of three paranoid schizophrenic patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, USA, all of whom claim to be Jesus Chris