Uma Thurman killed Bill and will now fight a serial killer.
Uma Thurman is set to star in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, the Danish auteur’s anticipated thriller which will topline Matt Dillon as a serial killer, Variety reports.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan has also joined the cast of the English-language film which will star Bruno Ganz, Riley Keough and Sofie Gråbøl.
Both Thurman and Siobhan Fallon Hogan have previously worked with Lars von Trier. Thurman had a role in his last film, Nymphomaniac, pictured, while Hogan starred in Dancer in the Dark and Dogville.
During Berlin, von Trier said the film will celebrate “the idea that life is evil and soulless, which is sadly proven by the recent rise of the Homo trumpus – the rat king.”
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT takes place in 1970s USA. We follow the highly intelligent Jack through 5 incidents and are introduced to the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack’s point of view. He views each murder as an artwork in itself, even though his dysfunction gives him problems in the outside world. Despite the fact that the final and inevitable police intervention is drawing ever near (which both provokes and puts pressure on Jack) he is – contrary to all logic – set on taking greater and greater chances. Along the way we experience Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge – a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and in-depth explanations of, for Jack, dangerous and difficult manoeuvres.
The film will start shooting in Trollhättan (Sweden) in March and move on to Copenhagen (Denmark) in May.