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Film School Rejects: Knightley Signs On for ‘The Island 2: Never Let Me Go’

  • _Christopher_M · 8 months ago
    sounds good to me...I really liked One Hour Photo should make for an interesting movie
  • CaptainReg0981 · 8 months ago
    We'll see.
  • Jay DV · 8 months ago
    Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go was a great book and I'm happy it's getting the film treatment. However, why did they have to associate it with "The Island"? The first movie shares some fairly similar themes with Ishiguro's book, but I think they're doing it a huge disservice by connecting it with that mediocre movie.

    I always thought The Island shared subject matter with some Aldous Huxley books (particularly Brave New World and ironically Huxley's own The Island), but it seems Hollywood is poisoning not only his great works, but now Ishiguro's.

    Knightley is a fine actress. Hope for the best, I guess.
  • Elizabeth · 8 months ago
    Stop it, stop it, stop it. This is the third film blog that has said Never Let Me Go is just like The Island.

    They have one single superficial quality in common, in that they have clones in them. Otherwise they couldn't be more different. Is E.T. the same film as Independence Day because they both have Aliens? No.

    It takes 2.5 seconds to read a summary of the novel, and maybe two days to read the novel to know they're nothing alike. Why is that the last thing anybody wants to do? Is it because as a society we're terrified of different and new things so we have to force them to become something we're familiar with? Everything has to be just like something we already liked for us to like it?

    Or is it because one person said it and every other blog is just regurgitating the same stuff over and over again instead of actually coming up with it's own topic and tagline?

    Besides the fact that it's depressing that nobody has read the book. It's a fantastic book.
  • Tom Lincoln · 8 months ago
    I thought the Island was one of Michael Bay's better films. I could actually tolerate it, unlike that terrible Transformers movie.
  • Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago
    Good for you Elizabeth. And shame on you Cole.

    I haven't read the book myself, are the chase scenes as good as the one with the cycles in The Island?
  • Jules · 8 months ago
    ... I love this book to death. And I hate Keira Knightley to death.

    Goddamn you, movie industry. What, are they going to cast Brad Pitt as Tommy? Megan Fox as Ruth? Ew.

    Please please please surprise me, Keira. Try to make me a fan. Go ahead, because if you screw this up, I will personally rip out your hair.