New Line Cinema has picked up Justin Haythe's screenplay
Snitch, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The story is inspired by true events chronicled in a PBS 'Frontline' documentary. It follows a devoted father whose son faces 30 years in prison after being set up in a drug deal. The father goes undercover in the drug world to make a bust that will free his son.
Guy East and Nigel Sinclair will produce via their Spitfire Pictures.