Today, we’re getting a first look at Klara and the Sun, the long-awaited film from Taika Waititi. This one was expected to open a couple of years ago, then in 2025, but it’s recently been dated for October 3rd 2026 by Sony Pictures. Hopefully, the wait is worth it.
Vanity Fair has the new images, featuring stars Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Mia Tharia. Natasha Lyonne and Steve Buscemi are also in the cast.
The film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s book about a robot, or Artificial Friend, designed to ease the loneliness of the family she lives with. Dahvi Waller wrote the script, with Waititi coming in for rewrites.
This is Waititi’s first film since the horrible soccer “comedy”, Next Goal Wins, which sat on the shelf for four years before getting dumped into theaters in 2023. It didn’t do well at all. It’s been a rough stretch for Waititi, who saw his Time Bandits series canceled after one season, and his sequel Thor: Love & Thunder was one Marvel movie too many from him.
Klara and the Sun could be the rebound he needs. Certainly, Waititi is doing something different here, calling the film his “most dramatic film.” He added, “At first, when I was writing, I was like, ‘Make this a Taika film and fill it with dumb fucking robot humor.’ And that didn’t really work when I was writing it. It took away from the book, and I’m like, ‘Why am I adapting this really amazing book and then trying to break away from it?’”
