Los Angeles (E! Online) – Will Smith is ready to make a break for it.

Now that he’s managed to empty New York of postapocalyptic zombies, Hollywod’s most bankable star is joining forces again with his I Am Legend helmer, Francis Lawrence, for a film that will take him back to the Big Apple—or rather, take the Big Apple with him.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the director and star are eyeing 20th Century Fox’s The City That Sailed as a potential starring vehicle for Smith.

Touted as a fantasy drama, the flick follows a street magician father and his daughter who reside on opposite ends of the Atlantic after circumstances force her to move to England. Her desire to be reunited with her dad is so strong that she causes the island of Manhattan to break off from the rest of North America and drift across the ocean.