Following last week’s debut images from Taika Waititi’s anticipated adaptation of Klara and the Sun, Sony Pictures has dropped the first trailer. This one was expected to open a couple of years ago, then in 2025, but it’s recently been dated for October 23rd 2026. Hopefully, the wait is worth it.
Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Mia Tharia lead the cast. Natasha Lyonne and Steve Buscemi co-star in the film 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?’”
