Sylvester Stallone has joined Summit and Emmett/Furla Films' THE TOMB, reports Variety. Stallone will play a top prison designer who after being framed needs to escape from one of his own prisons.

Miles Chapman penned the script with Jason Keller doing a rewrite. Mark Canton, Robbie Brenner, Emmett and George Furla and Kevin King are the producers.

The project has long been in development with Antoine Fuqua once attached to direct Bruce Willis in the project. Arnold Schwarzenegger even flirted at taking the project as one of his first post-governor roles.