Tim Burton reportedly developing untitled film with Kazuo Ishiguro

Mixed · 2Deadline reported, citing sources, that director Tim Burton is teaming with Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro on a new untitled film. 1 2 Centre · 1Insiders told Deadline the film is still in development, with Burton planning to direct from a script by Ishiguro. 1 Centre · 1Plot details are being kept under wraps, but multiple sources say it is set in post-World War II Japan, and that it is an original script by Ishiguro, not based on a previous or upcoming novel. 1

Centre · 1The film has no distributor; the likely plan is to package it with talent once it is ready and take it to market, and no other talent is attached. 1 Centre · 1Deadline said it is not confirmed that this would be Burton's next film, though it is the project he has given the most attention since production on Wednesday ended. 1 Mixed · 2Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, has some screenwriting credits, most recently the 2022 film Living starring Bill Nighy. 1 2

Mixed · 2Taika Waititi's adaptation of Klara and the Sun, starring Jenna Ortega, who also stars in Burton's Wednesday, is due to release next week; the A.V. Club notes Ishiguro did not write that screenplay, which Waititi and Dahvi Waller handled. 1 2 Left · 1The A.V. Club also notes Burton is still working on an Attack of the 50 Foot Woman remake starring Margot Robbie and written by Gillian Flynn. 2