Ashton Kutcher will star in the action comedy “Five Killers” for Lionsgate reports Variety.
Kutcher will play a former hitman whose life is turned upside down because someone from his past has paid a group of killers to bump him off.
Robert Luketic (“Legally Blonde,” “Monster-in-Law”) will direct from a script by Bob DeRosa which Ted Griffin is rewriting.
Kutcher, Scott Aversano and Jason Goldberg will produce. Production is slated to begin early next year.