Lily Gladstone to star in Charlie Kaufman and Reed Morano’s The Memory Police
The movie is based on the book about people on an island who keep forgetting people and things
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Just days after she received an Oscar nomination for Killers Of The Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone has signed on to star in The Memory Police—an adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s novel of the same name written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Reed Morano. This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says that the project is a “hot package” in Hollywood, for obvious reasons, so hopefully Gladstone is getting some good cash out of this. No need to sell yourself short the week you get an Oscar nomination, right?
The novel takes place on an island where most of the residents have collective amnesia, with people and things regularly disappearing and being forgotten thanks to an organization called The Memory Police. The adaptation was first announced in 2020, with Prime Video handling distribution at the time, but THR doesn’t say anything about it or Amazon, so maybe that’s no longer the case.
Morano most recently directed The Rhythm Section (the Blake Lively revenge rampage movie) and I Think We’re Alone Now (the 2018 post-apocalypse movie with Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning). Before that she did a few episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale. Kaufman, of course, is one of the most famous screenwriters ever, with his last film being I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (he also apparently co-wrote an animated Netflix movie called Orion And The Dark). Barring some unexpected aesthetic choices, then, this will be Kaufman’s first live-action film since 2020.
In addition to her big Oscar nomination from earlier this week, Lily Gladstone also recently received the Golden Globe for Lead Actress In A Drama, making her first Indigenous woman to do so. Things seem to be going well for her, career-wise, so that’s nice. Good for her.
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I was going to say something, but I forgot what it was.
The Memory Police would like to have a word with you what with your ability to remember that you have fingers and were able to type your comment.
Blake Lively would have been a better choice.
Why?
In the book the main character is a man.
Ummm… do you think Blake Lively is a dude?
She’s definitely not a man.
Yeah, that was weird.
Oh, I thought it was a guy cuz Blake sounds like a man’s name.
So you said that some guy named Blake, who you clearly know nothing about given that this particular Blake is a woman, would be better in the role – which you didn’t know was a woman in the book – than an indigenous actress? Hmmmm, seems like you maybe were commenting about something else… what could it be? I bet you thought Mr. Blake Lively was a white dude too, right?
What does it have to do with her being indigenous? I thought this was the role for R, who is a man.
Also, the main protagonist (the writer) in the book is a woman (her editor (“R”) is male)
What a Kafka ripoff
I loved the book and Charlie Kaufman is the perfect person to bring it to the screen — and as long as Reed Morano can get what Charlie writes effectively onto the screen, then it could be spectacular.
I read and really loved that book. I read books, everyone! Tell your friends!
I will keep your secret unto my grave.
Please remind me again in a few days?