Last month I posted about Keira Knightley being cast in an adaptation of one of my favorite books, by possibly my favorite writer. Mark Romankek is making Never Let Me Go, based on the Kazuo Ishiguro novel that got robbed of the Booker.
Four more actresses have been cast in the film – Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Andrea Riseborough, and Sally Hawkins. I can’t wait for this help, and though reportedly Knightley disputed that this is an SF story (wrong), I’m hoping for a sensibility we saw in something like the excellent Children of Men (and not the worst case scenario – The Island). Very much looking forward to this movie and the performances.
Not SF? What does she think it is?
I don’t want to see this – the book was really amazing and I want to keep it in my head as it is. It gave me terrible headaches and I worried about the characters as I read it – it was a very unusual and affecting reading experience. I would hate to displace the feel of it, and where it sits in my head, by the performance of someone who doesn’t even recognize that the work is science fiction.