Nicolas Cage is to take the lead in a new sci-fi movie depicting a world ravaged by climate change.
Other notables in the genre include Soylent Green (1973), Waterworld (1995), The Core (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Children of Men (2006), Wall-E (2008) and 2012 (2009).
The film, called The Humanity Project, takes place in 2030, when much of the midwest of America has been rendered uninhabitable.
Cage plays a caseworker seeking to appeal the exile of a single mother (Sarah Lind) and her son (Jakob Davies).