With an already insanely stellar cast, Variety is reporting that Steve McQueen‘s Twelve Years a Slave can now boast Benedict Cumberbatch. So let’s do the count. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Paul Dano, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, Adepero Oduye, Taran Killam, and now Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch will play one of the plantation owners who buys Ejiofor’s character.

Normally, this is where all sorts of words would go, analyzing the news, but what else is there to say? The jaw is on the floor. This project is going to be profoundly good. At the very least, it has a stirring set of names attached to an indelible real-life story about a freed slave who is tricked and sold back into slavery.

Could it possibly be too soon to celebrate?