‘The Memory Police’: Reed Morano And Charlie Kaufman Unite For A Movie About The Struggle For Truth
By Ben Pearson/Oct. 8, 2020 4:30 pm EST
Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to get when director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale) teams up with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) to make a film adaptation of The Memory Police, a novel from Japanese writer Y?ko Ogawa. Get more details about the story below.
Deadline reports that Morano will direct and produce and Kaufman will write an adaptation of The Memory Police, which has a pretty killer description:
It’s safe to say that this combination of filmmakers knows a thing or two about stories regarding the erosion of truth. Morano won an Emmy for directing The Handmaid’s Tale, a show about an oppressive regime that subjugates women and tries to make them forget about an era in which they had any agency. She also directed I Think We’re Alone Now, which is about the aftermath of a collapsed society. As for Kaufman, he’s the writer behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is literally about what happens when memories are erased. Separately, he’s also either written or directed films like Being John Malkovich; Adaptation; Synecdoche, New York; and Anomalisa.
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things have begun to disappear: at first little things: ribbons and then roses. Soon, photographs. However, a rare few are able to remember all that no longer exists – but the Memory Police are determined to make sure that what has been erased, remains forgotten forever. 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. As the world closes in around them, they struggle defiantly to hold onto the truth.
