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Please don’t ruin this novel. Too late. Well, if that’s the case, at least add in a Bladerunner sequence with a chase over the tops of cars or something. Oh, and a steamy sex scene. ‘Cause that’s how Kazuo would have wanted it.
The Atonement star this week started filming on Never Let Me Go, a tragic romance adapted from the Booker-shortlisted novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go plays out in a dystopian parallel Britain where the citizens are cloned in order to supply the trade in donor organs. Knightley takes the role of Kathy H, who is about to embark on her lifetime’s service but hears of a possible loophole in the system: clones may be able to avoid donating if they can prove they are in love.
“From the moment I finished the novel it became my dream to film it,” director Mark Romanek told Screen Daily. “Ishiguro’s conception is so daring, so eerie, so beautiful.”
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April 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Never Let Me Go is a tragic romance? I must have missed that bit…
April 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Oh, but Rampling. I think I may have a hard on.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Keira? No, please no. She’s such a scary skeletal thing. And then there’s that predatory jaw…
April 17th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Is it just me, or was that novel substandard? Didn’t like it at all, but I’m a fan of all his other novels…
April 19th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
WHAT THE OH GOD DON’T DO THIS TO ME
That was a GOOD book. It was beautifully written, it was crushingly sad, it was poignant.
It was not a “romantic” anything and it certainly didn’t feature personality-free female characters.
Even if they’ve had experience in donating cerebral organs.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Dear Nyla –
It was just you.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Yeah, I was utterly blown away by this novel. The movie looks like trash already.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I love his spare style, evident in this book, it’s just that I wasn’t emotionally connected to anyone in it. I didn’t care that much, though I realize his literary ambition there was precisely to make you feel…
So it might have been me, but I’ve just found two people in agreement. None of you, clearly….