Jamie Foxx Joining Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen
Jamie Foxx is in final negotiations to star opposite Gerard Butler in the next film from writer/director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist), the psychological thriller “Law Abiding Citizen.”
The script, written by Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet, Street Kings) and Darabont, follows a successful assistant D.A. (Butler) who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system (Foxx). Foxx’s character is devastated to learn that, because of a plea bargain, one of his wife and daughter’s murderers will be set free. So he unleashes revenge on the killers and those who made the deal.
Executive producing are Film Department’s Neil Sacker and Robert Katz, Catherine Zeta Jones has also been rumored to be involved with the film.
No production date has been set.
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Phillip Noyce to direct Tom Cruise’s ‘Edwin A. Salt’
Phillip Noyce is in talks to direct Tom Cruise in spy thriller ”Edwin A. Salt,” reports Variety.
”Edwin A. Salt” casts Cruise as a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. He must avoid capture long enough to clear his name.
Cruise has long been attached to the Kurt Wimmer script, which has seen two directors, Terry George and Peter Berg, depart the project in recent months.
Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash will oversee the film for Columbia Pictures.
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