Gray replaces Darabont on 'Citizen'

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F. Gary Gray has replaced Frank Darabont as director on legal thriller Law Abiding Citizen, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Darabont, who co-wrote the script with Kurt Wimmer, previously quit the project, prompting a scramble among Hollywood filmmakers to fill the vacated director's chair.

John Singleton (2 Fast 2 Furious) had been interested in the project, but Gray (The Italian Job) eventually landed the job.

Law Abiding Citizen focuses on an assistant DA (Gerard Butler) who finds himself involved in a vigilante plot set up by a victim of the legal system (Jamie Foxx). Foxx's character seeks revenge on the killers of his wife and daughter when they are set free on a plea bargain.