Frank Darabont will direct Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler in the lead role, Screen Daily reports.

The $40 million thriller follows a criminal mastermind who controls a city from inside his jail cell. Butler will play a prosecutor trying to stop him.

Production will begin on Law Abiding Citizen on August 18 with Darabont directing from a script by Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium).

Darabont has previously directed prison dramas The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, both Stephen King adaptations.