Posted: Wed., Apr. 27, 2005, 9:00pm PT

Clive Owen to star in 'Children of Men'

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Clive Owen has inked a deal to star in Universal's "Children of Men." Alfonso Cuaron will helm the sci-fi film about a future where people can no longer have children. Based on P.D. James' novel of the same title, the story is set in a dystopic society, radically transformed by humans' inability to reproduce and sent into chaos by the news of the death of the earth's youngest person, age 18. When the first woman becomes pregnant in more than 20 years, and thus becomes the most sought-after person in the world, Owen's character is enlisted to protect her.