This is one film that can’t seem to catch a break. Mere days after it snagged an A-list star in Jamie Foxx, “Law Abiding Citizen” loses its director — and given that he was none other than Frank Darabont, that’s a pretty stunning loss.

According to Ain’t It Cool News, the relationship between the film and its director “ended ugly” but no further details have been forthcoming.

Could the shifting storylines be part of the problem? When the film was first announced, as part of Gerard Butler’s Evil Twins production shingle, Butler was starring as an assistant D.A. who found himself in the center of a traumatized victim’s vigilante plot. When Darabont’s name became attached, the vigilante had been replaced by a criminal mastermind, who was controlling the city from the confines of his cell. (A good fit for Darabont, who likes a good prison drama.) When Foxx signed on, the plot had shifted back to the vigilante storyline, with Foxx playing the vigilante hellbent for justice.

While this frees Darabont to work on something else, such as his Stephen King adaptation “The Long Walk,” or his long-delayed “Fahrenheit 451,” it’s a disappointing blow to the film. This is Butler’s first producing gig, and it can’t feel very good to lose your director weeks before you were planning to start shooting. And where does it both leave Butler and Foxx, who may have passed on other roles for this? Who will take the director’s job, and how fast can they hire him or her? So many questions, so few answers.

But now it’s your turn, readers. Have you lost all interest in this film now that Darabont’s gone, or are Butler and Foxx enough to hook you? And which of the shifting plotlines did YOU prefer to see them tackle?