Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is turning the Yōko Ogawa novel The Memory Police into a feature, and it has an enviable filmmaking team to bring it to life.
The Handmaid Tale’s Reed Morano will direct and produce, and Charlie Kaufman will write the script based on the National Book Award-nominated surrealist tale which was recently translated and released by Pantheon Books in English, 25 years after its debut in Japan.Here is the logline: 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.
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