Thandie Newton’s next project will see her returning to the Wild West. The Emmy-winning “Westworld” actress will star in neo-Western thriller “God’s Country” for Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade, a press release announced. The pic is based on James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light.”

“Set in the bleak winter landscape of the Mountain West,” the film centers on “a college professor (Newton) living on her own at the edge of the national forest. One day she confronts two hunters trespassing on her land, triggering a battle of wills with dangerous ramifications.”

Principal photography will kick off this week in Montana. Director Julian Higgins (“House”) penned the script with Shaye Ogbonna (“Lowlife”). Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall, and Halee Bernard are among the producers.

Newton has picked up an Emmy, a Critics Choice Award, and two Golden Globe nods for her performance as Maeve Millay in HBO’s “Westworld.” The sci-fi drama’s third season premieres March 15. Her recent credits include “Big Mouth,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and “Gringo.” You can catch Newton next in sci-fi romance “Reminiscence,” “Westworld” co-creator Lisa Joy’s feature directorial debut. The Warner Bros. pic is now in post-production and is expected to hit theaters later this year.

“For years we’d be called up and they said, ‘Thandie, we want to go exotic with the role, so get excited. They want to go ethnic with the role.’ And even just that, I would just have to brace myself because it was so deeply offensive,” Newton has said. “But I wanted to work, and then I would read the script and I would transform it out of this bizarre objectification and I would think, ‘How can I help this? How can I help make this more progressive?’ And I would spend a lot of my time … trying to give more dimension to these characters, these women’s roles.”