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Taika Waititi’s New Film ‘Klara and the Sun’ Imagines a Dystopian Sci-Fi Future without Internet, and Jenna Ortega as an Android

Taika Waititi says the adaptation explores loneliness and humanity as Jenna Ortega stars as a robot companion for a sick child.

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Jenna Ortega plays an Artificial Friend named Klara in Taika Waititi's emotional new sci-fi adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.

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Taika Waititi will return with the science fiction film Klara and the Sun whose first images have just been unveiled. After the box office bid ($18.6 million for 14 million budget) and the catastrophic critical welcome (44/100 on Metacritic) of a dream team in 2023, Taika Waititi dedicated Klara and [...]

Jenna Ortega may be currently giving it all in the filming of Wednesday's season 3, but she will soon have to match Netflix's series with other unavoidable commitments, such as promoting her two science fiction projects.The first of these will be Klara and the sun.Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's homonymous novel (Ishiguro Kazuo), the first that the British writer of Japanese origin published after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the film …

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