Milla Jovovich is set to star alongside Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Penn Badgley in writer-director Michael Almereyda’s modern day adaption of William Shakespeare’s timeless play Cymbeline, it was announced yesterday.

Set to start principal photography on August 19 in New York City, Cymbeline unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug-dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America. Pitched as in the vein of Sons of Anarchy and the style of Baz Luhrmann‘s Romeo + Juliet, Cymbeline will aim to put a fresh spin on a universal story of love, betrayal and revenge. The film will be produced by Anthony Katagas and Michael Benaroya, the latter of whom will fully finance the movie through his banner Benaroya Pictures.