Jamie Foxx looks set to play a devastated husband and father who takes revenge on the killer of his wife and daughter in the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen.
Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont will be taking charge of the project, which also stars Gerard Butler as a high-flying assistant district attorney.
Foxx is in final negotiations to play a vigilante who sets out to take revenge on the murderer who stole his family from him. In the story, the killer is set free due to a plea bargain, a move which leaves Foxx's character devastated and seeking revenge. Butler's character is involved in the legal farrago which saw the criminal handed his get out of jail card. Butler's also producing through his Evil Twin company.
Butler is currently on our screens in Guy Ritchie's gangster tale RocknRolla, while Foxx will next appear in The Soloist, the new film from Joe Wright, director of Atonement. He plays a brilliant musician who finds himself living on the street due to mental health issues in the Oscar season tear jerker.
In other Butler news, the Scots actor was yesterday being investigated for an alleged attack on a photographer. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles police department said an unnamed paparazzo had filed a report accusing the 38-year-old of punching him several times in the face in a scuffle early on Tuesday morning.
