Lionsgate Takes U.K. Rights to Bill Nighy's 'Living' Drama
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hollywoodreporter.comLionsgate has acquired the UK rights to Living, starring Bill Nighy, ahead of production set for the U.K. in spring 2021. The period drama will be directed by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Number 9 Films’ Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen.
The screenplay is by Kazuo Ishiguro and is an English-language adaptation of the Akira Kurosawa classic story Ikiru, written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni.
Set in London 1952, Living focuses on Williams (Nighy) a veteran civil servant, who has become a cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post WWII England.
As paperwork piles up on his desk, Williams learns he has seven months to live, unleashing a quest to find meaning in his life before it slips away.
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