In one of the weirder casting announcements I’ve heard in awhile, it appears that John Cusack and Hilary Duff are teaming up to star together in a post-apocalyptic version of Children of Men.

The story comes from Moviehole where they say the movie in question is called Talking to the Dog. It’s being written and directed by a guy named Mark Roper.

The idea is a world in which the problems portrayed in Children of Men are never solved. Imagine if things in Cuaron’s movie were a lot worse, then mix it with ‘The Ghost Whisperer’ and you have Talking to the Dog. Here’s how MH describes it: “Time has stood still for two, small communities. The consequences of Global warming, the lack of fuel, power and communication, have left them in isolation. Dying has become an industry, a woman able to give birth, now only a dream. Into this environment, a young man arrives. He is able to communicate with the dead, able to learn secrets of the past. Because of his presence, the two communities learn that love, in a dying world, is still alive and that there is always hope, even over greed.”

I love a good post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, and I love John Cusack. I’m not sure I like the idea of those two things together. And I have a really hard time picturing Cusack on screen with Hilary Duff. Will they have some sort of romantic involvement? I hope not, that’s just too creepy.