Here’s something you don’t read about every day: An almost silent action film with but a single line of dialogue. After deciding to exit from directing the upcoming Akira remake, Albert Hughes is now looking to make Motor City instead for Warner Bros., with Chris Evans being offered the lead, Collider report.

Chad St. John’s screenplay made it on to Hollywood’s Black List back in 2009, the list of the year’s best unmade films, and now it looks like production could begin as early as January next year.

It’s not that often that we get to see a big blockbuster trying to do things differently, and this project definitely has me interested already. Motor City would see Evans playing a small town crook framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and upon his release from jail, he goes after the ones who set him up looking for revenge.

In itself, the plot is fairly standard, but if the reports are true about the film having just one line of dialogue, and I really hope they are, then you can be sure that it’s going to be different from a lot of the generic action films currently being made. If that is the case, then you just know that the film will have an immense score, simply because it would need one, and that is definitely something to look forward to.

No stranger to the action genre, Evans of course is currently in cinemas at the moment in Captain America: The First Avenger, which has been performing well at the box office and got solid reviews. He’s now at work donning the superhero costume again (albeit in a new variation of the same suit), filming the Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers, and we can all look forward to that on 4th May next year.

Once filming on The Avengers is done, his schedule is looking fairly light, with enough time to fit in filming Motor City. So whilst there’s no confirmation that he’ll be accepting the lead for the project yet, I’m hoping he’ll take it. If not, both Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Renner have been mentioned as considerations if Evans turns down the part, but here’s to hoping he won’t.

And as if the prospect of an Albert Hughes and Chris Evans partnership on a pretty intriguing project wasn’t enough, to top it all off, Joel Silver is also set to produce the film. Silver has literally dozens of awesome films in his credits, including, but not limited to, all the of The Matrix films, V for Vendetta, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and RocknRolla, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Predator, the list really does go on. Is there anyone else that thinks this project sounds just so awesome, like a match made in heaven? Let’s all keep our fingers crossed that it will be blessed with good luck along the road to the big screen. More news on this when we get it.