Series adaptation Never Let Me Go will not continue at FX

A series adaptation of Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel is no longer on FX. The project, from The Nevers writer Melissa Iqbal, was announced as being in development with FX in May 2022 and ordered as a series from FX in October 2022 to air on Hulu.

Sources close to the project have confirmed that Never Let Me Go is no longer being worked on. Production had not yet started. The series would star Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers).

The series would follow Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. When she goes undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that unleash a revolution and test the limits of humanity.



The cast also included Tracey Ullman (pictured, Mrs. America), Kelly Macdonald (Line of Duty), Aiysha Hart (We Are Lady Parts), Spike Fearn (Tell Me Everything), Shaniqua Okwok (It's a Sin), Gary Beadle (Andor), Kwami Odoom (The Rook), Susan Brown (Game of Thrones), Keira Chanse (The Capture) and Edward Holcroft (Alias ​​Grace).

Never Let Me Go has been adapted once before, as a feature film released in 2010, starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield. The film was directed by Mark Romanek from a screenplay by Alex Garland.

The series adaptation comes from DNA Films, which also produced the feature film version, and Searchlight TV, whose film division also distributed the film.

Iqbal wrote the pilot and would executive produce alongside Marc Munden (Utopia), who would direct; Alex Garland; Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions; and Ishiguro.