Jenna Ortega Is an Artificial Friend Looking for a Home in Taika Waititi’s ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’, in PH Cinemas soon!

Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel, Klara and the Sun arrives in Philippine cinemas soon.

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Jenna Ortega is stepping into the world of artificial companionship in Klara and the Sun, the new film from Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi.

Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, the film follows Klara, an Artificial Friend, or AF, who wants nothing more than to be chosen and brought into the right home. In the newly released trailer, Ortega’s Klara enters the life of Josie, played by Mia Tharia, a young girl who immediately sees something familiar in her. What begins as a bond between a girl and her artificial companion slowly grows into a story about loss, loyalty, and the strange ways people learn to heal.

Check out the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isxrdbU81dE

Josie convinces her mother, played by Amy Adams, to bring Klara home. But this is not just a simple story about a girl getting a companion. Josie and her mother are carrying the weight of a difficult relationship and a deep personal loss, and Klara’s arrival begins to shift the emotional temperature inside their home. Through Klara’s innocent sense of wonder and unwavering loyalty, the family begins to face the pain they have been trying to live around.

The premise gives Waititi plenty of room to explore the questions that come with Ishiguro’s story: what does it mean to care for someone, what makes love real, and can something artificial still bring out something deeply human in the people around it? With Ortega playing an Artificial Friend who observes the world with curiosity and devotion, Klara and the Sun looks like a softer, more emotional kind of science fiction, less about machines taking over and more about what people reveal when they are loved without condition.

The film is written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose previous work includes Jojo Rabbit. The screenplay is by Taika Waititi and Dahvi Waller, based on Ishiguro’s novel.

Klara and the Sun stars Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, with Steve Buscemi and Natasha Lyonne. The film is produced by David Heyman, Garrett Basch, and Taika Waititi, with Gary Barber, Alex G. Scott, Jeffrey Clifford, Rosie Alison, and Kazuo Ishiguro serving as executive producers.

Klara and the Sun arrives in Philippine cinemas soon.

Credits are not final.