In my revent review of Alex Garland’s Men, I rundown a few of his earlier works and the terrors he’s conjured up that are “still too painful to think about.” I was thinking specifically about Never Let Me Go, a dystopian sci-fi film that isn’t a horror per se, but some of its haunting visuals and human costs make it feel like one. Now that story, which is based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, is becoming a new series over at FX.
Variety reports that FX is developing a television series based on Never Let Me Go. The dystopian sci-fi story centers on three friends at an exclusive boarding school carrying a dark secret. The students there are actually clones whose bodies will be harvested for organs once they reach a certain age, all with the goal of improving the lives of humans.
Melissa Iqbal, who wrote for HBO’s The Nevers, will pen the series.
The original 2010 film was penned by Garland and directed by Mark Romanek, but it’s the cast that stood out. Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Domhnall Gleeson, Andrea Riseborough, Sally Hawkins, Ella Purnell, and Charlotte Rampling starred in the strangely overlooked film. It’s one of my favorites, but it did nothing at the box office and was generally ignored when released. Perhaps this FX series will turn people on to what I believe is an undiscovered gem.
