MUMBAI: Philip Seymour Hoffman has been reportedly roped in Daniel Espinosa‘s film adaptation of Child 44. It is a thriller novel, one of Tom Rob Smith‘s bestseller and the first of the trilogy that revolves around a disgraced member of the Soviet Union military police during the Stalin era who investigates a series of child murders that connect to high members of the political party.

Hoffman joins the extensive cast of Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman and Joel Kinnaman in the movie. However the specific roles each actor is set to play remain undisclosed. Summit Entertainment plans to release the film sometime in 2014.

The film adaptation which is being penned by Richard Price is being produced by Ridley Scott‘s Scott Free Productions along with Michael Schaefer and Greg Shapiro. Worldview Entertainment is co-financing the project. Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone and Sarah Johnson Redlich are on board as executive producers with Douglas Urbanski.