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According to reports from Deadline, FX would have started the development of a series based on the novel Do not leave me by Kazuo Ishiguro, already adapted for the big screen in the film of the same name directed by Mark Romanek and starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield. The series will be written by Melissa Iqbal, author of The Nevers.
The series will adapt the same starting uchronic novel of the film, written and published by Ishiguro in 2005: in Hailsham college, in the English countryside, some students are educated, from childhood, to be docile and submissive. In reality they are clones that serve to donate organs to humanity in the not too distant future. The story is told to us by Kathy, in love with her colleague Tommy, engaged to her friend Ruth. When the three boys discover the dark and anguished secret concerning their future, they decide to escape from the boarding school/lager. But this decision goes against their military education, linked to a strong sense of duty. And so, inexorably they move towards a shocking destiny that sees them become adults and continue to confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to tear them apart.
The production of the new show will be handled by DNA Films together with Searchlight TV, whose cinematic counterpart distributed Romanek’s film in 2010. Adapting the novel for the cinema at the time was Alex Garland, who we will soon see again in the cinema with the horror Men. While to deal with the television adaptation we find, as mentioned, Melissa Iqbalwho recently served as showrunner on HBO’s The Nevers.
Producers include Iqbal, Allon Reich and Andrew MacDonald. No other details are known, as development is still in its early stages. While waiting for news, we invite you to retrieve the review of Don’t leave me.
