Filmmakers Charlie Kaufman and Reed Morano are teaming on a film adaptation of Yoko Ogawa’s novel “The Memory Police” for Amazon Studios.
Morano will direct and produce, and Kaufman will write the script based on the National Book Award-nominated surrealist tale which was recently translated into English 25 years after its debut in Japan.
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things have begun to disappear: at first little things: ribbons and then roses. Soon, photographs. However, a rare few are able to remember all that no longer exists – but the Memory Police are determined to make sure that what has been erased, remains forgotten forever.
When a young novelist realizes her book editor is one of those able to still remember, she hides him in a room beneath her floorboards. As the world closes in around them, they struggle defiantly to hold onto the truth.
When it will shoot is unclear. Morano will next direct for ten-part series “The Power” and the film “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence” both for Amazon, along with the Nicole Kidman-led “Pretty Things” and Zoe Saldana-led “Sabaya”.
Source: Deadline
