Lily Gladstone is set to follow her acclaimed performance in Killers Of The Flower Moon with a new Charlie Kaufman project.
Lily Gladstone is widely-tipped to win the gong for Best Actress at this year’s Oscars and we’re sure there’s no shortage of offers given how warmly her performance in Killers Of The Flower Moon has been received. It’s always fascinating to see the choice an actor makes in the wake of such success and in Gladstone’s case, she’s chosen to work with Reed Morano whilst also reuniting once more with Martin Scorsese.
The project Gladstone has plumped for is The Memory Police, an adaptation of the acclaimed 1994 science fiction novel by Yoko Ogawa.
Reed Morano, director of some episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, is directing the film. The script has been adapted for the screen by Charlie Kaufman, the scribe behind such strange and cerebral films like Being John Malkovich and I’m Thinking Of Ending Things.
Martin Scorsese is executive producing the project, reuniting Gladstone with the director with whom she has enjoyed so much critical acclaim. We haven’t heard any other casting for the film as of yet but with Gladstone having now been announced as the project’s lead (we assume), we’re hoping the rest of the cast is equally as impressive.
Speaking of impressive, the synopsis cetainly possesses bags of potential and is ripe for writer like Charlie Kaufman and his trademark trippiness: Ogawa’s novel ‘is a parable taking place on an unnamed island off an unnamed coast where a majority of the island’s residents are subject to collective amnesia. They endure a process of forgetting things, including objects, people and daily rituals, with the amnesia enforced by an organization called The Memory Police. In the story, a novelist tries to hide her editor, who can still remember, from the Memory Police, while he encourages her to write her book.’
Memory has often been a key theme in Kaufman’s scripts and we’re looking forward to seeing how Morano, Gladstone and their other collaborators bring his ideas to life. We’ll bring you more on The Memory Police as we hear it.
