Last week production began on Children of Men - a SF thriller movie based on P.D. James' best-selling novel, and will continue through January in the United Kingdom, according to an announcement made by Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment.
Children of Men
Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) will direct the movie - and also adapted the book with Timothy J. Sexton and David Aratawhich - and stars Clive Owen (Sin City), Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Charlie Hunnam and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Cuaron adapted the P.D. James book with Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata. Here is what Sci Fi Wire gave as the plot synopsis:
Children of Men envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows an unlikely champion of Earth's survival: Theo (Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who is forced to face his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope.
Children of Men will be released in North America on Sept. 29, 2006