Jenna Ortega, Klara and the sun: the new Taika Waititi unveils a bright trailer
Adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the feature film marks the director’s return to poetic science fiction.
Three years later A dream team largely unnoticed (with approximately $18.6 million worldwide), Taika Waititi returns with Klara and the sunan American-British science fiction film starring Jenna Ortega.
The star of Wednesday (on Netflix) will be Klara, an android who discovers the world with a young girl who chose her in a store. The novel is told from the point of view of Klara, an artificial intelligence designed to accompany humans alone. She observes the world from a window before being adopted by Josie, a sick teenager in a society marked by genetic modification.
The director says he approached the project with excess confidence before encountering the complexity of the material. “I thought it might be the easiest film I would ever have to make. The more you read the book and the more you try to dig into the relationships, the more complicated everything becomes” he confides.
The film adopts a promising retro-futuristic aesthetic, inspired by the 1960s, and dismisses any visible contemporary technology. Waititi explains that he wanted to suggest a world “where humanity has gone so bad that the internet has been taken away”.
The trailer shows the meeting between Klara (Jenna Ortega) and Josie (Mia Tharia), before the arrival of Amy Adams in the role of Josie’s mother, who is obviously hiding dark secrets. Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi and Simon Baker complete the cast.
Klara and the sun will be released on October 21, 2026 in France in cinemas.
