Colin Farrell, Dublin company Element Pictures and The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos are to team up again for the Greek filmmaker's new movie, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Element, which was behind this year's Oscar-winning Room, says that The Killing of a Sacred Deer tells the story of "a young man that needs to take revenge, a doctor that has to make a decision, and his family that must survive".
Production will begin in the US in August with casting for Farrell's co-stars under way.
Element Pictures' Ed Guiney, who was an Oscar nominee earlier this year for his work as producer on Room, described director Lanthimos and writing partner Efthymis Fillipou's script for The Killing of a Sacred Deer as "stunningly original".
The Lobster, which told the story of a near future where single people's lives depend on finding a partner, won the Jury Prize at Cannes last year.
Farrell will next be seen on cinema screens in the JK Rowling adaptation Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Harry Potter spin-off, which stars Eddie Redmayne as wizard Newt Scamander and Farrell as his pursuer, Percival Graves, is released in cinemas on November 18.
The Dublin actor has also narrated the upcoming documentary It's Not Yet Dark which tells the story of Irish writer-director Simon Fitzmaurice's life with motor neuron disease and is based on his acclaimed memoir of the same name.
