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For his acclaimed Sony Pictures Classics drama Living starring Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy, director Oliver Hermanus adapted Ikiru, the classic 1952 film from Akira Kurosawa.
Hermanus has explained over various stops at Deadline’s festival studios that the project started with a script by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go), which was written as a vehicle for Nighy. Pic tells the story of the veteran civil servant Mr. Williams, who finds himself an impotent cog within London’s bureaucracy as the city struggles to rebuild following World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then, a shattering medical diagnosis forces him to take stock — and to try and grasp fulfillment before it goes beyond reach.
When Nighy was approached for the project, he gravitated quickly to the idea of playing “the quiet, decent man” at its center. “There’s a challenge there, but also [in playing] someone who was institutionalized in grief and loss…and in this extreme situation that the film puts him in, and also just the whole institution that he works in, which is a kind of monument to procrastination,” the actor told Deadline in a virtual appearance at Sundance. “Because of what happens to him, he has a short amount of time to bring some kind of meaning to a life that’s been spent avoiding stuff.”
Hermanus notes that he had to meet with the film’s writer and “pass the Ishiguro test” before landing the opportunity to direct the pic. He and its producer Stephen Woolley were “such…big [fans] of the original
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