Idris Elba is in negotiations to star in the long-gestating adaptation of Charles Martin's romantic drama novel "The Mountain Between Us" at Fox 2000. Elba would play the lead, taking over a role that both Rosamund Pike and Elba's "Pacific Rim" co-star Charlie Hunnam was once attached to. The story follows a pair who fall in love while stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash. Hunnam and Pike left the project and Chris Weitz has done a re-write.