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
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.