Penelope Cruz will lend her voice to one of the lead characters in the upcoming animated movie “G-Force” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures.

“G-Force” will combine live-action and CG effects as it tells the story of a group of “ultra-intelligent animal commandoes” who work for a government agency trying to prevent “an evil billionaire from taking over the world,” the Hollywood Reporter informs.

Penelope Cruz will be one of the lead voices, as Juarez, a guinea pig. She joins a cast that includes Nicolas Cage playing Speckles the mole, Steve Buscemi playing Bucky the hamster and Tracy Morgan as Blaster the guinea pig.

Bill Nighy and Will Arnett will play the human characters in the film.

Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film, of which he has said: “It's a good story; it's unique characters, it's half animation, half live action,” MovieWeb.com quotes him as saying.

“It falls right into the Disney family of films - the kind of films we make, like ‘National Treasure,’ which entertain everybody from the smallest kid to the oldest grandparent.”

“G-Force” marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning visual effects innovator Hoyt Yeatman. Yeatman has worked with Bruckheimer before, on films such as “The Rock” and “Armageddon,” according to imdb.com.

Bruckheimer Films' Mike Stenson and Chad Oman, along with Duncan Henderson, are executive producing.

Shooting has already begun in Los Angeles and the film is scheduled for release in 2009.

Penelope Cruz next appears on the big screen in “Elegy,” an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel “The Dying Animal,” where she stars opposite Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper and Peter Sarsgaard.

She also appears in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” alongside Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Patricia Clarkson.