Lily Gladstone Boards ‘The Memory Police’ Adaptation From Writer Charlie Kaufman and Director Reed Morano
Fresh off her first Oscar nomination for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone has landed her next big project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she will be starring in the Charlie Kaufman-scripted The Memory Police, based on the 1994 science fiction novel by Yoko Ogawa. Reed Morano is directing.
The story is described as having tones of Franz Kafka and George Orwell, so having someone like Kaufman at the keyboard is no surprise at all. Martin Scorsese is attached to executive produce, along with Ogawa. Morano and Margot Hand of Picture Films are producers.
The story follows a group of islanders in an unknown location that have been subject to collective amnesia, enforced by an organization known as the Memory Police. In the story, a novelist tries to hide her editor, who can still remember, from said collective, while he tries for her to write a book.
Lily Gladstone is now a recognizable face thanks to Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and could soon become even harder to get, as she’s one of the two favorites in the Best Actress race (probably the tightest above-the-line category at the Academy Awards), next to Emma Stone.
Morano directed the pilot for The Handmaid’s Tale, for which she won Emmy and DGA awards. She also helmed the Sundance hit I Think We’re Alone Now and made her directorial debut (after years as a cinematographer) with 2015’s Meadowland, starring Olivia Wilde.
Kaufman has been busy behind the scenes since her 2020 feature I’m Thinking of Ending Things, which proved that Chernobyl‘s Jessie Buckley was here to stay (she’s now an Oscar-nominated actress). He wrote the upcoming Netflix animated film Orion and the Dark. Last year, he said he’d written a film for Ryan Gosling to star in and which he planned to direct, but we’ve heard nothing since. In a post-Barbie world, that project should be able to get financing rather easily, and Gosling is one who likes to experiment with different genres and creators, but the silence on that front is deafening.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
