A writer and director are talking to the US Navy for ideas, and the hope is that original star Denzel Washington will spark to the script if it’s good.

If he does board the project, Washington will need a new on-screen adversary. Hackman died in February at the age of 95. Tony Scott, the original director of “Crimson Tide,” and Robert Towne, one of its writers, have also died.

We have a really good director and writer talking to the navy right now about what’s going on under the water,' original producer Jerry Bruckheimer teased