“The Handmaid’s Tale” director Reed Morano and Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman are boarding a feature version of the Yōko Ogawa surrealistic novel “The Memory Police” for Amazon Studios.
Morano will direct and produce, and Kaufman will write the script for “The Memory Police,” described as an Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance.
The story is set on an unnamed island, where objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young novelist realizes her book editor is one of those able to still remember, she hides him in a room beneath her floorboards.
Morano directed the first three episodes of Hulu’s hit show “The Handmaid’s Tale” and won...
Morano will direct and produce, and Kaufman will write the script for “The Memory Police,” described as an Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance.
The story is set on an unnamed island, where objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young novelist realizes her book editor is one of those able to still remember, she hides him in a room beneath her floorboards.
Morano directed the first three episodes of Hulu’s hit show “The Handmaid’s Tale” and won...
- 10/8/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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