An Adaptation of P.D. James’s The Children of Men

I remember reading and enjoying The Children of Men nearly a decade ago. It’s the only James novel I’ve read–I think most of her work is in the crime and mystery genres. Here’s a plot summary:

The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.

Today I learned that it’s going to be adapted for the screen, to be released in 2007. Alfonso Cuarón, whose previous work includes Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Y tu mamá también (a film concerned with another aspect of reproduction) will direct. The cast looks excellent–Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine (excellent, by the way, in The Weatherman), Clive Owen and Julianne Moore.