Val Kilmer has taken the lead role in the crime thriller "Fake Identity" for Nu Image/Millennium Films reports Variety.

The story centers on an American doctor working in Chechnya whose life takes a deadly turn when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.

Dennis Dimster-Denk directs and co-wrote the script with Zvia Dimbort. Shooting begins September 30th in Sofia, Bulgaria.