Rapper RZA is stepping behind the camera for his third feature, Hurricane Katrina-set heist thriller Cut Throat City.

The film centres on four boyhood friends in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward who return after Hurricane Katrina to find their homes decimated, no jobs, and no help from FEMA. Reluctantly turning to a local gangster for work, the friends are hired to pull off a daring heist in the heart of the city.

The trailer is available to watch below.

Shameik Moore (The Get Down), Terrence Howard (Empire), T.I (Ant-Man), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver), Rob Morgan (Mudbound) and Wesley Snipes (Blade) will star in the film.

Cut Throat City is RZA's third film. He made his debut in 2012 with the star studded kung-fu film The Man With the Iron Fists. He followed this with the Azealia Banks led music drama Love Beats Rhymes. He also directed an episode of Netflix's Iron Fist.

Cut Throat City will be out in 2019.