Since they took the Bourne series away, Paul Greengrass is taking a plane to the bottom of the ocean

To be more accurate, Greengrass is actually going to direct an adaptation of T.J. Newman’s bestselling novel Drowning: The Rescue Of Flight 421, which Warner Bros. won in a heated (and very pricey) bidding war with every other studio in Hollywood. That comes from Deadline, which notes that various publications and retailers have named Drowning one of the best books of the year.

The book, which pulls from Newman’s real-life experience as a flight attendant, is about an airplane (flight 421, presumably) that crashes into the ocean shortly after takeoff and sinks, trapping the handful of survivors in one sealed-off section. The survivors include an engineer and his preteen daughter, and if that all didn’t seem enough like a perfect setup for a movie already, Deadline adds that the engineer’s estranged wife is “part of the elite rescue team that races to save the passengers before their air runs out.” Thrilling!

The movie is probably going to pull more from Greengrass’ experience with stuff like Captain Phillips and United 93 than the Bourne movies, but who better to serve on an elite airplane rescue team than someone with secret CIA training and no memory of their past? Drop a Treadstone operative into the ocean and Flight 421 will be flying out of there in no time.