August 31, 2005

Diane Lane ("Must Love Dogs"), Mickey Rourke ("Once Upon a Time in Mexico") and Thomas Jane ("The Sweetest Thing") are all set to star in the crime drama "Killshot," Variety reports.

The film, an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel, centres on a real estate agent (Lane) and her husband (Jane) who become targets of hitmen after an extortion scheme goes array.

Rourke will play one of the hitmen.

The film, directed by John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love"), begins shooting in Toronto in October.