Taika Waititi may or may not do a sequel to Thor: Love & Thunder. He also may or may not direct a Star Wars movie. But one thing we definitely know he’s attached to is an adaptation of Klara and the Sun, which has Wednesday star Jenna Ortega aboard. And now that film gets a huge boost, as Deadline reports Amy Adams is in talks to join the cast.
Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee, is reportedly in talks to join the Klara and the Sun, based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times bestselling novel. Ortega plays an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. She is bought by a mother, played by Adams, to help her teen daughter Josie who loves the robot but is suffering from a mysterious illness. It’s Klara’s mission to save Josie and save her family from heartbreak.
Dahvi Waller wrote the screenplay, but it’ll be interesting to see if Waititi gives it his own spin as he often does.
Coming up for Adams is Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s film arriving this fall. She last starred in Disney’s long-awaited sequel, Disenchanted, back in 2022, and before that Dear Evan Hansen and Zack Snyder’s Justice League.