Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to a historical thriller centered around the physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who goes on a mission to hunt down a notorious criminal.

EW has confirmed the film, entitled Principia, is being produced by screenwriter David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice) and written by Christian Contreras. Deadline first reported the news.

Goyer’s credits include penning the scripts for Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, Man Of Steel, and the upcoming Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Contreras has had a few small acting roles and wrote the script for the drama Labyrinth, a film about the murders of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. According to Deadline, Principia is based on historical events, and is similar to The Prestige.