Emagine Entertainment Inc. is trying to place the Detroit movie theater it is planning with rapper Big Sean in the concourse of Michigan Central Station, Crain's has learned.

The depot, purchased last month by Ford Motor Co., is one of several locations in and around downtown that the Troy-based company is considering for the theater, according to a source familiar with the matter who requested anonymity.

The company announced this winter that it and Big Sean, a Detroit native born Sean Anderson, plan to open the Sean Anderson Theatre Powered by Emagine.

They have publicly said they are targeting to have the theater open by 2020, but it's unclear how long such a project would take to complete inside the train station.

Plans call for a 10- to 12-screen multiplex that would seat between 1,000 and 1,300 people. It would include a music venue that could also host events such as lectures, seminars and comedy shows.

A message left with Ford Land Development Co. on Tuesday afternoon was not immediately returned. Nick Thomas, spokesman for Emagine, declined to comment.

Big Sean performed at Ford's event Tuesday announcing its purchase of the depot, which has been unused since 1988.

Detroit has few movie options. There is Cinema Detroit on Third Avenue, Bel Air 10 on Eight Mile Road on the city's northeast side, the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Redford Theatre on the northwest side.

Austin, Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas LLC announced two weeks ago that it plans a nine-screen theater on a roughly one-acre property on Stimson Street off of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard west of Woodward Avenue in Midtown.