MUMBAI: Sylvester Stallone will play a New Orleans hitman who teams with a New York City cop in Headshot, being jointly produced by IM Global and EMJAG Prods.

IM Global will launch Headshot to foreign buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin this week.

The film will be directed by Wayne Kramer from a script by Alessandro Camon. The shooting of the film is likely to begin in May simultaneously in Louisiana and New York.

The film will have Stallone‘s character teaming up with a young NYPD detective in a high-stakes investigation that leads from the dingy back alleys of New Orleans all the way to the power corridors of Washington, D.C. The unlikely duo, brought together by two vicious murders, take on all who stand in their way, willing to sacrifice everything to exact revenge.

IM Global has a busy slate at Berlin. In addition to Headshot, IM Global‘s genre arm Octane will launch Kevin Smith‘s Red State and Rob Zombie‘s The Lords of Zombie to foreign buyers. The production company will show footage of Barry Levinson‘s The Bay, while Madonna will be in Berlin to share footage from her period drama W.E., which IM Global‘s specialty division Acclaim is selling.