According to The Hollywood Reporter, Charlie Hunnam is in negotiations to join Alfonso Cuaron's The Children of Men for Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures.

Clive Owen and Julianne Moore already have been cast in the film adaptation of the book by mystery writer P.D. James. Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing for Strike Entertainment, while Hilary Shor is producing for Hit & Run Prods.

The story is set in the near future, when mankind has lost the ability to reproduce, and the world is rocked by the news that the world's youngest person - who is 18 - has died.