When it comes to the great Jerry Bruckheimer action films post the $1.49 billion grossing success of Top Gun: Maverick, most of them are game for a sequel, including one to the 1995 Tony Scott directed nuclear submarine thriller,

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.

Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed plans for a sequel to Crimson Tide. It comes 30 years after the submarine thriller debuted in cinemas. Speaking this week, the 80-year-old Hollywood producer was quoted by Variety saying: “We have a really good director and writer talking to the navy right now about what’s going on under the water.”