Just a few months after a series adaptation of Never Let Me Go was announced, the project has been scrapped at FX, according to Deadline.
- The series adaptation of Never Let Me Go was ordered to series back in October.
- The planned series was to be an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, which was previously adapted as a film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.
- Production had not yet begun on the canceled series, which would have come from DNA Films and Searchlight TV.
- Melissa Iqbal had written the pilot and was set to executive produce along with Marc Munden, who was also set to direct.
- Other executive producers included Alex Garland; Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions; and Ishiguro.
- The cast of the series would have included:
- Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers, Counterpart, The Witcher) – Thora
- Tracey Ullman (FX’s Mrs. America, Into the Woods, Howards End)
- Kelly Macdonald (Brave, Operation Mincemeat, Line of Duty, Boardwalk Empire)
- Aiysha Hart (Desert Warrior, Mogul Mowgli, Colette, Line of Duty)
- Spike Fearn (The Amazing Mr. Blunden, Sweetheart, Tell Me Everything)
- Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe, Wolfe, It’s a Sin)
- Gary Beadle (Small Axe, Wheel of Time, Around the World in 80 Days)
- Kwami Odoom (Death in Paradise)
- Susan Brown (It's a Sin, Game of Thrones, The Iron Lady)
- Keira Chanse (Come Away, The Wheel of Time, The Capture 2)
- Edward Holcroft (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Wolf Hall, London Spy, The Undeclared War)
About Never Let Me Go:
- In this sci-fi thriller, Thora, a rebellious teenage clone, escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society, but as she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.