After Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman will work together again in a new thriller titled The Kill Room. The first teaser was released today and also features Maya Hawke and Joe Manganiello. Nicol Paone directs the film while Jonathan Jacobson is in charge of the screenplay. The Kill Room centers on an unlikely trio: art gallery owner Patrice Capullo (Thurman), hitman Reggie Pitt (Manganiello) and Reggie's boss Gordon Davis (Jackson) all become unexpected business partners and conquer the art world.
Maya Hawke appears as one of the many figures surrounding this criminal triangle. Thurman's daughter joins a cast that also includes Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka and Alexander Sokovikov.
The film's sypnosis reads "When Patrice's New York gallery is unprofitable, and Gordon and Reggie need to find a way to launder the money they make arranging hits for the mob, a chance encounter through Patrice's drug dealer gives this trio a brilliant idea: use the gatekeeper. art world, already known for shady deals and anonymous buyers, to their own advantage. Their new partnership is born, all they need is for Reggie to do some paintings to make the deals look legitimate.
But when Reggie's art, inspired by his real-life murders, becomes an overnight sensation, he becomes an accidental avant-garde sensation known as "The Bagman" in the New York art scene. His work begins to attract more attention and press than Gordon and Reggie's clients would like."
In fact, as the trailer shows, many of the characters, including the one played by Hawke, have an obsession with discovering Bagman's identity.
The Kill Room will hit theaters on September 28.