Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Niccol will reunite on an untitled thriller.

The Gattaca and Lord of War collaborators have lined up a third project, Digital Spy reveals citing Deadline.

Hawke will play a Las Vegas-based drone pilot who fights the Taliban by remote control for 12-hour shifts before returning to his family.

He begins to question the methods used to perpetuate a seemingly endless war.

Hawke was seen in The Purge, Before Midnight and The Getaway earlier in the year.

Writer-director Niccol most recently worked on the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's The Host.

The upcoming thriller will begin shooting in February.