Jamie Foxx is said to be in negotiations to join the cast of upcoming psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen. The movie also stars Gerard Butler (300).

The film will tell the story of a successful assistant DA who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a victim of the legal system. Fox’s character is the victim who is devastated to learn that, because of a plea bargain, one of his wife and daughter’s murderers will be set free. And so, he sets out to unleash hell on the killers and the ones who made the deal.

It is being helmed by Frank Darabont who co-wrote the script with Kurt Wimmer.