EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is in talks with Rupert Wyatt to direct screenwriter Adam Yorke's Black List screenplay Boxman.

The thriller is set after a failed bank robbery that leaves 19 people locked in a state-of-the-art vault. The FBI recruits the world's best file guard from federal prison so he can free them before they suffocate.

Boxman is produced by 42's Ben Pugh & Josh Varney and Range Media Partners' Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger. Casey Durant and AJ Bourscheid will executive produce for Range.

Meredith Wieck and Jon Humphrey oversee Lionsgate. Lionsgate's Bonnie Stylides is negotiating the deal.