Dave Bautista landed his next starring film role after leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The actor, who last played Drax the Destroyer in guardians of the galaxy volume 3will present the action comedy The killer game.

The plot centers on an assassin named Joe Flood, played by Bautista, who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to strike himself, preferring to be murdered rather than die in prolonged pain.

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However, he then discovers that he doesn’t have a terminal illness at all and now has an army of people to kill him that he now has to fight. Deadline reports that Lionsgate took the film to the Cannes Film Festival to find buyers this week.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘Sir Ben Kingsley and The Mummyby Sofia Boutella also star in the film (via Deadline), but their roles have yet to be revealed.

The killer game was directed by a stuntman turned stunt coordinator turned day shift (the 2022 netflix vampire film starring Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg) director JJ Perry.

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Second chanceby Rand Ravich and X-Men: Dark PhoenixSimon Kinberg wrote the screenplay adapting Jay Bonansinga’s novel, while James Coyne did some recent rewrites.

Now that he’s done with the MCU, would Bautista ever play another role in the comics? “I’m open-minded about any role. I’m open-minded about any genre. I’m just open-minded about my career,” he said digital spy recently.

The killer game is expected to start production this summer. guardians of the galaxy volume 3 is out in theaters now.

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Joe Anderton is a freelance writer at Digital Spy.