Taika Waititi has decided on his next film, and while it does feature robots, it’s not set in a galaxy far, far away. Instead the JoJo Rabbit director has lined up an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times bestselling novel Klara and the Sun.
Deadline is reporting that Waititi is in negotiations to direct for Sony’s 3000 Pictures, with Mrs. America and Halt and Catch Fire‘s Dahvi Waller penning the original draft of the screenplay. Harry Potter‘s David Heyman is producing the film for Heyday Films, while Garrett Basch and Waititi are also in talks to produce.
Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into the awards bothering 1993 Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson Merchant Ivory classic, will Executive Produce the film. His last novel to be adapted for the big-screen was the brilliant Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley vehicle Never Let Me Go.
Published in March 2021, Klara and the Sun is set in a dystopian future where parents who can afford it often buy their children androids as companions to prevent them from becoming lonely. One such family purchase the titular Klara, who sets about trying to save them from a life of heartbreak.
Next up for Waititi is the oft-delayed soccer comedy Next Goal Wins, while his Star Wars films remains in development at Lucasfilm.
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