Idris Elba is in negotiations for "The Mountain Between Us", Fox 2000's long-gestating adaptation of the Charles Martin's best-selling novel.
The "Beasts of No Nation" star will star in the romantic drama that once saw Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike attached as a pair who fall in love while stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash, said the Hollywood Reporter.
But that pair fell out, and then Chris Weitz was brought in to do a rewrite and get the film in shape for an early summer shoot somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, where it will be winter.
The studio will move quickly to cast its female lead opposite Elba.
Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) is directing the film, which is being produced by Chernin Entertainment. Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are producing the project, with Fox 2000's Marisa Paiva overseeing it.
J Mills Goodloe and Scott Frank wrote earlier drafts of the screenplay.
