Val Kilmer has signed on to star in Dennis Dimster-Denk’s upcoming thriller “Fake Identity,” Variety reported Sunday.

Written by Dimster-Denk and Dimbort, the film follows an American doctor who works in Chechnya and is thrust into a life-threatening situation when he helps a woman escape from an assailant.

Nu Image/Millenium Films is producing the project, which is scheduled to head into principal photography later this month.

Kilmer has several projects awaiting release, including Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” and Charles Winkler’s action drama “Streets of Blood.”

Dimster-Denk’s directing credits include several episodes for television’s “Desire” and “Wicked Wicked Games.”