Liev Schreiber will join Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Universal’s “The Repossession Mambo,” trade paper Variety reports.

The thriller marks the feature-directing debut of Miguel Sapochnik. Variety previously announced Jude Law and Forest Whitaker were attached to the Universal Pictures project in June.

The story is set in the near future, in a time when artificial organs can be bought on credit, “with the understanding that defaulting on payment will result in a fatal repossession,” says Variety.

Schreiber has been cast as Law's boss at “a futuristic credit union dealing in artificial organs.” Law’s character receives an artificial organ and, apparently unable to pay for it, goes on the run. He is joined by his wife, who has also received an artificial organ and still owes the money for it.

Eric Garcia and Garret Lerner wrote the script based on a sci–fi novel by Garcia. The two scribes and Sapochnik have reportedly been working on “The Repossession Mambo” for the past four years.

Stuber/Parent's Scott Stuber and Mary Parent produce.

Sapochnik previously wrote and directed short film “The Dreamer.”

Schreiber currently stars in the Mike Newell- directed “Love in the Time of Cholera,” alongside Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt and Hector Elizondo. The film, based on the homonymous novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, was released earlier this month.

Schreiber also appears in the upcoming “Defiance.” He is attached to star in Fox's “X-Men” spin-off “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

The actor’s screen credits include “Kate & Leopold,” “The Sum of All Fears,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and “The Painted Veil,” among others. He and his “Veil” co-star Naomi Watts welcomed their first child, a baby boy, in July.

His future co-star in “Mambo,” Jude Law, recently starred in “My Blueberry Nights,” alongside Norah Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. The Wong Kar Wai-directed opened the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in May.

Forest Whitaker received the Academy Award for Best Actor this year, for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film “The Last King of Scotland.”