Bill Nighy Oliver Hermanus Elizabeth Karlsen Stephen Woolley Kazuo Ishiguro Britain London film stars Bill Nighy Oliver Hermanus Elizabeth Karlsen Stephen Woolley Kazuo Ishiguro Britain London

Lionsgate Takes UK On ‘Ikiru’ Remake ‘Living’ Starring Bill Nighy

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Lionsgate has taken UK distribution rights on Living, the Bill Nighy-starring English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Ikiru.Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro has written the screenplay.

Moffie filmmaker Oliver Hermanus is helming. Producers are Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen at Number 9 Films. Production is being lined up for the spring.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. Thus begins his quest to find meaning in his life before it slips away.The deal marks the first since Lionsgate’s UK office underwent a major

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