Washington, Dec 3 : Felicity Jones is in early negotiations to join Tom Hanks in the upcoming project 'Inferno.'

The project, which would be helmed by Ron Howard, will be the 3rd installment based on the Dan Brown series of novels, which are popularly known for 'Da Vinci Code,' Deadline. com reported.

The movie would show Harvard symbologist Henry Langdon, played by Hanks, who awakens in an Italian hospital with amnesia, and pairs with Sienna Brooks, the role Jones is being considered for, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante's Inferno.

The Sony Pictures and Imagine Entertainment project, which was penned by David Koepp, would be produced by Brian Grazer alongside Howard. (ANI)