Cher will star in a Lifetime Network movie about the Flint Water Crisis, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Katie Couric will executive produce the film titled "Flint," which will portray Cher as a Flint resident whose family is impacted by the Flint Water Crisis.
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The drama is based on events in Flint about the poor management that led to water poisoning as well as the human elements of the residents who suffered — and whose voices were ignored. The movie was inspired by a February 2016 cover story in Time magazine called "The Toxic Tap," by Josh Sanburn.
Back in January 2016, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to residents of Flint.
"This is a tragedy of staggering proportion and shocking that it's happening in the middle of our country," the Oscar winner said.
The city's 100,000 residents haven't had safe water to drink since 2014, when officials began drawing water from the Flint River as a cost-saving measure. However, the city did not treat corrosive water properly, which led to metal leaching from old pipes.