{"id":721361,"date":"2026-06-23T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:04:09","slug":"taika-waititi-brings-more-dramatic-tone-to-klara-and-the-sun-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721361\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi brings more dramatic tone to Klara and the Sun trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Ishiguru\u2019s novel, Klara and the Sun is set in an unidentified future, with Klara narrating. As a solar-powered AF, Klara has a special relationship with the sun, the source of her nourishment, but she also bonds with Josie when the girl and her mother are shopping for AFs. So Josie chooses Klara, despite the latter being an older model. Josie\u2019s mom is skeptical but agrees on a trial basis, encouraged by the 20 percent discount. \u201cJust remember everything you learned and hopefully they\u2019ll come to love you like a member of the family or family dog,\u201d Lyonne\u2019s store manager tells Klara. Klara soon senses that something is wrong and turns to her old friend, the sun, for guidance. (Book readers will know what\u2019s up.)<\/p>\n<p>Ishiguru\u2019s leisurely meditation on humanity\u2019s relationship to technology might seem out of Waititi\u2019s usual wheelhouse, but the director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/story\/klara-and-the-sun-first-look-taika-waititi-jenna-ortega\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently told Vanity Fair<\/a> that he quickly realized he needed a new tonal approach to the material and adapted quickly to make his most dramatic film. \u201cSometimes I think you get caught up in, like, \u2018Oh, people want the same tone as this other thing from eight years ago,\u2019 and it\u2019s nice to not have to cater to that so much or cater to your own expectations of what you think you want to do,\u201d Waititi said.<\/p>\n<p>Klara and the Sun hits theaters on October 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Ishiguru\u2019s novel, Klara and the Sun is set in an unidentified future, with Klara narrating. As a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-721361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}