Kevin Kline and Milla Jovovich are poised to star in the sex trafficking drama Welcome to America, which will be released by Lions Gate Films in North America, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on "The Girls Next Door," a January 2003 New York Times Magazine cover story by Peter Landesman about sex slavery, "America" was developed by Centropolis partner Roland Emmerich and producer Rosilyn Heller with screenwriter Jose Rivera and up-and-coming German director Marco Kreuzpaintner.

Kline will play a Texas cop who finds out that he may have had a daughter who was trafficked some years ago. In the course of his investigation, he meets a young boy from Mexico City whose 13-year-old sister has been kidnapped. They go on a quest to save the Mexican girl, who is befriended by Jovovich, a young Russian woman who thinks she is coming to the U.S. to become a nanny, but is instead enslaved in Mexico.

The film is scheduled to start filming in Mexico City in late November. Emmerich will start shooting his next project, 10,000 B.C., in March.

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