Cher signs up for Lifetime movie

Cher will star in and exec produce Flint

Singer and actor Cher is set to star in a TV movie from US cablenet Lifetime about a drinking water contamination crisis.

Flint, from Sony Pictures Television, focuses on events that led to water poisoning in the town of Flint, Michigan and the impact it had on residents.

Oscar-winner Cher, who starred in HBO’s TV movie If These Walls Could Talk in 1996, will play a Flint resident whose family is affected by the water crisis.

Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Katie Couric and Cher are exec producing the project, which is inspired by a February 2016 Time magazine cover story.

Zadan and Meron’s Sony Pictures TV-based Storyline Entertainment optioned the rights to the story. Production begins in the spring but A+E Networks-owned Lifetime is yet to confirm an air date.

The ongoing Flint water contamination crisis began in 2014 when the town’s water supply was changed from treated water from the Detroit River to the Flint River through pipes that did not have adequate corrosion protection. Large amounts of lead and other chemicals have seeped into the water supply since.