Deadline reports on an intriguing project that is coming together at producer Amasia Entertainment: Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick will star in Mr. Right, based on an original screenplay by Chronicle writer Max Landis. The plot synopsis:

“Kendrick will play a woman whose bad luck streak at finding lasting love seems to end when she meets Mr. Right. That’s until she discovers he is a reformed hit man. When his dark past catches up, their fledgling relationship is tested as they try to save one another.”

Mr. Right will be directed by Paco Cabezas, a Spanish filmmaker I’m not too familar with. The premise sounds very familiar; every two or three years there seems to be a new film about a troubled but kind hitman who bumbles into a relationship with a beautiful, unlucky woman. (Anyone remember You Kill Me? Or what about The Merry Gentleman?) But I really like Rockwell and Kendrick, and they sound like a very appealing onscreen combination. (They’re both also in the upcoming Joe Swanberg film Digging For Fire.) And Landis started with well-worn raw material in Chronicle—found-footage movies, superheroes—and produced something inventive and memorable. Hopefully he can do that again with the emotionally tortured hitman genre.