FX has cancelled its plans for a TV series adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 highly acclaimed science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go”.
The series was picked up by FX back in October and was meant to air as one of their FX on Hulu exclusives. Melissa Iqbal wrote the pilot and would have served as showrunner.
Production had not begun before the decision to scrap the series was made so this joins the latest in a growing list of shows that either had series orders or renewals reversed in the past few years, and the first for FX.
The series was to follow Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society.
As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse, and Edward Holcroft also starred in the series which was to be produced by DNA Productions with FX Productions and Searchlight Television.
The novel was previously adapted into a film in 2010 by writer Alex Garland, director Mark Romanek and starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.
Source: Variety
