Actor Joe Manganiello will star opposite Uma Thurman and Samuel L Jackson in the upcoming dark comedy thriller The Kill Room.

Written by Jonathan Jacobson and set to be directed by Nicol Paone, the story follows a hitman (Manganiello), his boss (Jackson), an art dealer (Thurman) and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.

The production of The Kill Room will begin this year in New Jersey and New York. Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Jon Keeyes are producing the film under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, and Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment.