News – Keira Knightley cast in Never Let Me Go film based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel

Wow, one of my favorite books over the last few years by one of my favorite authors has a star attached to a film adaptation (I don’t have many bad things to say about Knightley either)! Some of the accolades the novel – published in 2005 – received? It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (Ishiguro won that honor previously for his The Remains of the Day, which was also made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Christopher Reeve), for the ’06 Clarke Award (which I would say he should have won, but Ryman’s Air was no joke either) and for the 2005 NBCC Award. Time Magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Last year it was reported that Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) was directing it, and Alex Garland (28 Weeks Later, Sunshine) was writing the screenplay.

    
Synopsis of Book:

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods – and about their futures. Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives.

    
This is really cool as we were just talking about Ishiguro in Sarah’s column!

    
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