The trailer for Mark Romanek’s highly anticipated film, “Never Let Me Go” is finally online. The Fox Searchlight film is a melancholy, sci-fi-ish (sorta) human drama that has an incredible cast, including Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”), Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield (“Red Riding” trilogy, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”), Sally Hawkins (“Happy Go-Lucky”), Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, and Andrea Riseborough.
Knightley might be the bigger, well-known actor, but Mulligan is actually the lead and regardless, we have to say this trailer looks excellent. We read the script earlier this year and it definitely captures the dolorous tone therein. Here’s the official synopsis, but you should have read about it on our blog several times now.
In his highly acclaimed novel NEVER LET ME GO, Kazuo Ishiguro (THE REMAINS OF THE DAY) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek (ONE HOUR PHOTO), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films bring Ishiguro’s hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen. Kathy (Oscar® nominee Carey Mulligan, AN EDUCATION), Tommy (Andrew Garfield, BOY A, RED RIDING) and Ruth (Oscar® nominee Keira Knightley, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ATONEMENT) live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.
The picture is Romanek’s third feature-length film and it follows up 2002’s “One Hour Photo” starring Robin Williams. Why the major delay and eight years in between films? Romanek was supposed to helm “The Wolf Man,” but wisely walked away when the project was swerving away from his original vision. In 2005 he was also supposed to direct “Cold Case” with Tom Hanks, but that one fell apart two weeks before it was supposed to shoot.
Romanek recently tweeted that the film would be coming out this fall on October 1st. And we must note, the Rachel Portman score is just absolutely lovely. We can’t wait to see this. Update: Fox Searchlight has confirmed that the picture is coming out in limited release (or “select theaters” to be completely accurate on October 1.