Exclusive: Director Nicol Paone on reuniting Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson in The Kill Room
Now available for purchase and rent Digitally from Shout! Studios, in collaboration with Yale Entertainment, is the dark comedic thriller The Kill Room. Directed by Nicol Paone, Oscar-nominee Uma Thurman and Academy Award recipient actor Samuel L. Jackson have teamed up for the first time since Pulp Fiction.
Written by: Jonathan Jacobson, the cast also includes Joe Manganiello, Debi Mazar, Maya Hawke, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka, and Alexander Sokovikov.
The dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer (Thurman) who teams with a hitman (Manganiello) and his boss (Jackson) for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
Nicol Paone previously worked on Rosie O'Donnell's The Big Gay Sketch Show as a producer/performer for three seasons, working alongside Kate McKinnon and others before producing award-winning content for the Obama administration and eventually joining Hillary Clinton's campaign. There she produced and directed a series of collaboration videos with the Center for American Progress. Her first film Friendsgiving was produced by Ben Stiller/Red Hour and tackles the all too familiar territory of what happens when your Thanksgiving is filled with all chaos and dysfunction of the annual holiday feast but none of the family that comes with it.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Paone on reuniting Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson in The Kill Room
