Keira Knightley to star in Sci-Fi film 'Never Let Me Go'

by Joey Paur

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'Never Let Me Go' is a sci-fi thriller being set up with Fox Searchlight. Keira Knightley has been set to star in the movie which will be based around cloning. Also staring in the film is Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan. The best part about this whole thing is who is writing and producing the film. His name is Alex Garland and he is the writer behind a few Danny Boyle films such as 'The Beach', '28 Days Later', and 'Sunshine', he also wrote 'The Last King of Scotland'. So you can be sure this film is going to have a solid script and story. Directing the film is Mark Romanek who is a music video director and this will be his first feature film. Variety reports:

Story revolves around a trio who grew up in a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover they are clones grown for the sole purpose of organ donation.


Sounds like it will be a very toned down, non Micheal Bay version of 'The Island'. The title 'Never Let Me Go' also sounded pretty familiar so I was doing some research and found that the film is based on a Novel which variety failed to report. The novel of the same name was written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Below is a product description of the book.

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.


They don't give away what the whole secret in the description is the fact they are all clones. I assume Knightley will be playing Kathy. With Alex Garlan behind the film though I am sure it will be a really good movie.

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