Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight, Inception) and Justin Timberlake (The Social Network) are in final negotiations to star in the upcoming Andrew Niccol (Lord of War) film I’m.mortal. The film is set in a society where time is the new currency, the rich are essentially immortal and the rest of society has to struggle to survive.

THR reports that Murphy will be playing a member of the law enforcement organization known as the Timekeepers, whose character is described as, “”precise as the time he keeps.” Timberlake would play a man who goes on the run, and takes an heiress, Amanda Seyfried (Red Riding Hood) hostage after he comes into a fortune of “time” and becomes the target for a murder investigation.

I’m.mortal is slated to hit theaters in 2012.