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The period drama will be directed by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Number 9 Films’ Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen.
Lionsgate has acquired the U.K. rights to
Living, starring Bill Nighy, ahead of production, set to start in the U.K. in spring.
The period drama will be directed by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Number 9 Films’ Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. The film, written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is an English-language adaptation of the classic Akira Kurosawa story
Ikiru, written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
Set in London 1952,
Living focuses on Williams (Nighy) a veteran civil servant who has become a cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-WWII England. As paperwork piles up on his desk, Williams learns he has seven months to live, unleashing a quest to find meaning in his life before it slips away.
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