Susan Sarandon is in negotiations to join the action thriller "Snitch" at Exclusive Media reports Heat Vision.

Dwayne Johnson plays a suburban father who is hit hard when his teenage son is sentenced to thirty years under mandatory minimum drug laws. In order to reduce his son's sentence, the father goes undercover to serve up a senior drug dealer.

Sarandon will play an ambitious U.S. attorney who believes a drug bust can help her political career. The film is based on a Frontline documentary.

Ric Roman Waugh is directing the project and re-wrote the script by Justin Haythe. Nigel Sinclair, Guy East, Alex Brunner, David Fanning and Gordon Gray are producing.