As “Tomb Raider,” “Wanted,” and “Salt” have shown, Angelina Jolie is not to be trifled with. The Oscar winner is set to headline another thriller, “The Kept,” and it sounds as though the revenge pic will offer her yet another opportunity to kick ass. Variety reports that Jolie will also produce the project, which Imperative Entertainment recently acquired the rights to.

Set in the winter of 1987, the story follows “a trio of killers that descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Caleb, who is 12 years old, must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men responsible,” the source summarizes.

“The Kept” is based on the 2014 novel of the same name. “Lady Macbeth” scribe and Blackburn Prize winner Alice Birch is penning the script.

Jolie won an Oscar in 2000 for “Girl, Interrupted” and received a nod in 2009 for “Changeling.” She recently finished filming “Maleficent 2,” a sequel to Disney’s 2014 retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” with more focus on the story’s villainess. She’s currently filming “Come Away,” a prequel to the stories of “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland.” The project marks “Brave” co-director Brenda Chapman’s live-action debut.