Ford, Fraser pair for film

In this May 20, 2008 file photo, actor Harrison Ford appears onstage during MTV's 'Total Request Live' show at the MTV Times Square Studios to promote his new movie 'Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull' in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Indiana Jones and "The Mummy" slayer are teaming up on the big screen — to battle not ancient, otherworldly baddies, but a big medical dilemma.

Brendan Fraser will join Harrison Ford for a medical drama set to begin filming in April, CBS Films announced Wednesday. The untitled movie will be the first production for CBS Films, a feature film division established in 2007.

Fraser will play a father who recruits the help of a medical researcher portrayed by Ford. CBS Films said the film's screenplay is inspired by "The Cure," a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geeta Anand about John F. Crowley, a former Bristol Myers Squibb executive who started his own biotech company to save his two children from a rare muscular disorder.