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Taika Waititi Adapted Klara and the Sun . The Result Is Very Different From the Book.

The film version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is shaping up to be a legendary bomb.

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Oct 27, 2026 2:26 PM

Columbia Pictures

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If you squint, you can sort of see why Taika Waititi chose to adapt Kazuo Ishiguro ’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun . Waititi is drawn to naive narrators who try to figure out a world the audience understands better than those characters do, as in Jojo Rabbit , which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2020.…