Jenna Ortego in talks to star in Taika Waititi’s sci-fi film KLARA AND THE SUN

Wednesday AND Beetle juice 2 star Jenna Ortega he is reportedly in talks to star in the directorial Taika Waititithe next sci-fi movie project Chiara and the sun.

Chiara and the sun will be a film adaptation of Never let Me Go author Kazuo Ishigurois the 2021 bestselling novel of the same name. The project is said to be in development at Sony’s 3000 Pictures, with Dahvi Waller writing the screenplay.

Chiara and the sun centers on Klara, a robot girl created to prevent teenagers from feeling alone. This is the story of how she tries to save a human family she lives with from heartbreak. I assume Ortega will play Klara in the film

In the description of the book we read: “Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with strong observation skills, who, from her place in the shop, carefully observes the behavior of those who enter to browse, and of those who pass beyond the street outside . She continues to hope that a customer will choose her soon. Klara and the Sun is an emotional book that offers a glimpse into our evolving world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

The book’s author spoke about his story in an interview with NPR, saying, “I think I’ve always been attracted – you know, throughout my career, to storytellers who are, in one way or another, a little ‘ on from the outside. But Klara was particularly interesting to me because she doesn’t carry any baggage with her. It’s not that, you know, she has her own value system that clashes with what she finds. She’s like a blank slate at the beginning “, and she’s quite childish and very open. And so it was – you know, it’s not just the way, the very limited way, that she actually reads the world that attracted me. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and the naivety survives in her throughout the text. I wanted her to remain, like, a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world, even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies.”

The project’s producers will be Waititi, Garrett Basch and David Heyman for Heyday Films. Ishiguro will serve as executive producer.