Though his much-touted return to the action genre with Faster didn’t exactly deliver high-octane thrills, it seems Dwayne Johnson isn’t running back to family fodder full time just yet. He's in negotiations for drug thriller Snitch.
Based on a true story originally reported in a US TV documentary, Snitch follows a suburban dad whose teenage son is looking at 30 years in the slammer on a mandatory minimum drug charge. In order to reduce the boy’s sentence, daddy dearest agrees to go undercover to get info that will lead to the arrest of a big shot drug dealer. Of course, it helps a bit when you look like Dwayne Johnson and not, say, Huw Edwards (though we hear he’s a bit of a tough nut).
This is one project that has been in develop for so long that New Line was actually a separate entity when it originally nabbed Justin Haythe’s script back in 2006.
Now, though, after several script drafts, Carl Franklin leaping into the director’s chair and jumping back out and New Line itself being swallowed up by Warners, the film’s in the hands of Exclusive media. Writer/director Ric Roman Waugh is bashing out a new draft, which he’ll shove before cameras in June if everything falls into place.
Meanwhile, if DJ can stop hitting Twitter to encourage us all to “bring it” and “get after it,” he’ll be hitting the promotional trail for Fast Five, the latest Fast & Furious film. Plus, proving he’s still willing to flit between bruising punch-up pics and youthful adventure, he’s also just worked on Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.