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.

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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,