FX Orders ‘Never Let Me Go’ Series at Hulu, Sets ‘The Nevers’ Actress Viola Prettejohn as Star

FX has ordered a new one-hour drama series based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go,” Gina Balian, president of FX Entertainment, announced today. The show of the same name will premiere exclusively on Hulu and has set its main cast.

Produced by DNA Productions, with FX Productions and Searchlight Television, the thriller stars Viola Prettejohn (“The Witcher”), Tracey Ullman (FX’s “Mrs. America”), Kelly Macdonald (“Boardwalk Empire”), Aiysha Hart (“Line of Duty”), Spike Fearn (“The Amazing Mr. Blunden”), Shaniqua Okwok (“Small Axe”), Gary Beadle (“Wheel of Time”), Kwami Odoom (BBC’s “Death in Paradise”), Susan Brown (“It’s a Sin”), Keira Chanse (“Come Away”) and Edward Holcroft (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”).

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“Never Let Me Go” follows Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone, who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.

Melissa Iqbal (“The Nevers”) wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner. She executive produces along with Maria Fleischer (under DNA), Ishiguro and Alex Garland, who penned the screenplay for the 2010 film adaptation, as well as DNA’s Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich, who produced the movie. Searchlight was behind the feature, which was helmed by Mark Romanek and starred Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley. Marc Munden also executive produces and directed the pilot. Kharmel Cochrane (“The Lighthouse,” “The End of the F***ing World”) served as casting director.

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“Never Let Me Go is a modern science fiction classic that Melissa Iqbal and the creative team have brilliantly adapted for FX as a drama exploring timely and unsettling themes on life and the ethics of technology,” Balian said. “We are honored to partner with Andrew and Allon at DNA Productions, Searchlight Television, Alex Garland, Marc Munden, Kazuo Ishiguro and the incredible cast on this exciting new project.”

Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” was published in 2005 to critical acclaim and was nominated for the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named the best novel of 2005 by Time Magazine.

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