Johnson Is A Tattle Tale

Dwayne Johnson will star in the long-in-development action/thriller "Snitch" says Variety.

In the film Johnson plays "a working class hero who risks everything to save his son, who is falsely imprisoned".

Ric Roman Waugh is set to direct and will re-write Justin Haythe's screenplay The story is based on a Frontline documentary.

David Fanning and Gordon Gray are producing.

Shooting will start in June.