Ben Foster is in negotiations to star alongside Tom Hanks in the latest Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno.
Inferno sees Hanks reprise his role as symbologist Robert Langdon as he desperately tries to prevent a deadly plague being released.
The plague is centred on Dante's literary masterpiece Inferno, the 14th-century poem about the nine circles of hell.
The Hollywood Reporter says Lone Survivor star Foster is set to play a genius scientist who is obsessed with Inferno, and who has decided to release a virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem.
Ron Howard is returning to the director's chair for the third film adaptation of Brown's hit Robert Langdon series.
Inferno is set for release on October 14, 2016 and will start shooting next month.
