Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy will play the lead role in “Living,” an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s famed 1952 Japanese feature “Ikiru” at Number 9 Films.
The new take shifts the story to 1952 London and will follow William, a veteran civil servant who has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-World War II England.
As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning to his seemingly monotonous life before it slips away.
Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of The Day”) is penning the script for this English-language adaptation which Oliver Hermanus (“The Endless River”) will direct. Aimee Lou Wood co-stars.
Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni co-wrote the original while Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen are set to produce the new version. “Living” will shoot on location in the U.K. next spring.
Source: THR
