“Never Let Me Go is about to start filming, with Keira Knightly in the lead role.

It is based on the Kazuo Ishiguro novel by the same name, and if it retains half of the book’s seriousness, it may be the first solid cloning movie since The Boys from Brazil.

The topic has typically been dealt with at the level of pure sensationalism, as in The Sixth Day, or obscured with a quasi-mystical veneer, as in The Island.

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