Don Cheadle has been cast opposite Pierce Brosnan and Woody Harrelson in New Line Cinema's caper drama "After the Sunset," a project that reunites him with director Brett Ratner. Production is scheduled to begin later this month.

"Sunset" begins with a master thief (Brosnan) sailing off to an island paradise after his last big score. However, when his lifelong nemesis (Harrelson) shows up to make sure the thief is really retired, a new cat-and-mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery begins.

Cheadle will play a crime kingpin in the Caribbean who tries to lure Brosnan out of retirement.

Cheadle worked with Ratner in 2000's "Family Man" and also had an uncredited cameo in the director's "Rush Hour 2."

Cheadle just wrapped "Assassination of Richard Nixon" opposite Sean Penn and Naomi Watts and will rejoin the "Ocean's Eleven" cast for "Ocean's Twelve," directed by Steven Soderbergh. Cheadle then makes his directorial debut on "Tishomingo Blues," an adaptation of the latest Elmore Leonard novel, in which he will also star.

Based on a Paul Zbyszewski spec script (which Craig Rosenberg was recently hired to rewrite), "Sunset" is being produced by Firm Films' Beau Flynn and executive produced by Tripp Vinson. Chris Pollack is associate producing, while New Line production execs Kent Alterman and Keith Goldberg are overseeing for the studio.

Cheadle is repped by UTA, Liberman/Zerman Management and attorney Warren Dern of Offer Weber Dern.