Uma Thurman & Samuel L. Jackson To Team Up Again In 'The Kill Room'

Jack Rabbit Slim’s #1 twister, Uma Thurman, and everyone’s favorite ice-cool hitman, Samuel L. Jackson, will team up again for an upcoming movie titled “The Kill Room,” a “darkly comic” thriller about a hitman who becomes an overnight sensation in the art world.

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The synopsis and story are pretty simple, but it works. “The Kill Room” follows a hitman, 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.

Nicol Paone, whose “Friendsgiving” topped the iTunes charts in 2020, will direct the original script from Jonathan Jacobson. Production is due to begin sometime this spring in New Jersey and New York.

In a recent statement Paone praised the script and talked about working with the two Hollywood legends: “Getting to make ‘The Kill Room’ — an already incredible script — with Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson is beyond my wildest dreams. Every moment they’re onscreen, they are both enviable and eye-catching. I am eternally grateful to both of them for saying yes, and I am thrilled to bring this to life alongside Anne Clements and Yale Productions.”

Thurman recently starred in the Apple TV+ series “Suspicion,” as well as the Showtime series “Super Pumped.” Jackson, normally knee-deep in Marvel, has also been getting in on the TV game, playing the titular Ptolemy Grey in Apple TV+’s acclaimed series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.” Although the pair appeared side by side at the most recent Academy Awards (where Jackson received an Oscars’ Honorary Governors Award), the last time they shared the screen was nearly twenty years ago in Quentin Tarantino’s 2004 splatterfest “Kill Bill: Vol. 2.” If the title is anything to go by, we’ll hopefully get a few glimmers of the ruthless avenging bride and the Ezekiel-quoting Jules in this latest collaboration.

Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Jon Keeyes are producing under their Yale Productions banner alongside Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures, Paone, Thurman, and Dannielle Thomas and Jason Weinberg from Untitled Entertainment.