FX continues to add some really interesting genre television projects with a revival of “Justified” on the way, Noah Hawley‘s “Alien” prequel series expected to begin shooting next year, and the “OA” creative team is reuniting for the murder mystery show “The Retreat.” Yet another high-profile genre show is on the way that will see the network reboot “Never Let Me Go.”
According to Variety, FX is developing a series based on the dystopian sci-fi novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro that focuses on three friends at an isolated boarding school that is revealed to have a dark secret. The children are clones that will be eventually harvested for their body parts/organs once they reach a certain age to help expand the lives of humans.
Melissa Iqbal from “The Nevers” is writing the series from DNA, FX Productions, and Searchlight Television.
The underrated 2010 film helmed by Mark Romanek was adapted by Alex Garland (“Men,” “Ex Machina“) with an impressive cast that consisted of Andrew Garfield, Carrie Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Domhnall Gleeson, Andrea Riseborough, Sally Hawkins, and Charlotte Rampling.
Here is the synopsis for the original film:
Friends Kathy (Mulligan), Tommy (Garfield), and Ruth (Knightley) grow up together at a seemingly idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. When they leave the school and the horrible truth of their true purpose is revealed to them, they must simultaneously confront deep-seated feelings of love, jealousy, and betrayal that threaten to tear their friendship asunder.
It’s a grim sci-fi concept that pushes the ethical side of what it means to clone humans and how that might look in the real world. “Never Let Me Go” has less of a fantastical setting than something like Michael Bay‘s “The Island” which has a similar concept but had an extremely different tone, being an action flick rather than a hard-hitting emotional drama.
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