I haven’t read Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go,” but it’s the source for the latest film from music video and “One Hour Photo” director Mark Romanek. The story — the basic story — follows a group of English boarding school-raised people (played by Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield) who discover some alarming truths about the world they live in once they are released into it. That’s all I know, and all I intend to know until I’ve seen the film. But with Romanek directing and a script from “28 Days Later” scribe Alex Garland, the September 15 release date seems an awfully long way away.

For those who have read the book, or who just want to catch a glimpse of what the film looks like, we have an exclusive clip for you below, part of our ongoing Fall Preview week.

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I have just uploaded 964 BluRay-quality screen captures of Carey from her 2009 film The Greatest. The film itself is lovely, and Carey is a stand-out as always, and looks completely adorable to boot! Last week I also realised that I’d forgotten to re-add the captures of Carey in Bleak House, so they are now back in the gallery as well. Enjoy!

Fresh online at Imp Awards are three new character posters for Never Let Me Go and jolly beautiful they are to, flaunting the film’s none-more-now cast members Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley resplendent in a blue-tinged mist, as well as a one-sheet that’s similarly striking.

Mark Romanek’s take on Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel, adaptated by Alex Garland, is the curtain-raiser at this year’s London Film Festival and promises to be one of the LFF highlights. Judging by the trailer, it’s safe to expect one of the year’s most poignant and cerebral sci-fis, exploring the big stuff: love, death and what it means to be human.

The posters feature Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley) and Tommy (Garfield), pupils at the mysterious Hailsham boarding school who are being prepared for a shocking fate (and it’s not summer school with George Lineker). LFF ticket holders can catch Never Let Me Go on October 13, while the rest of us will have to wait until January 14.

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With every step closer to production, the film Drive becomes more interesting. First it became a Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Pusher) movie with Ryan Gosling starring. Then Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston began negotiating to join the cast. And now it looks like Carey Mulligan will be the female lead when the film goes before cameras, starting next month.

THR reports the news, and summarizes the film like so: Gosling is “a nameless Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Mulligan) in his car.”

The Hossein Amini script (he wrote Killshot, and one draft of the new Jack Ryan movie) is from the novel by James Sallis. I still haven’t got around to reading the novel, but at this point I can let it wait; I’m much more curious to see what Refn is going to put on screen.

This will be the director’s biggest movie to date, and his first production to be so directly affiliated with an American studio. (Universal is distributing.) That’s another reason to keep a close eye on the film. As Refn’s profile has steadily increased over the past few years, it was inevitable that he’d work with a studio, and this movie feels very much like it could be a ‘getting his feet wet’ sort of project. Wonder Woman probably won’t be next, but given that Refn has a number of non-mainstream projects he’s talked about doing next, I’m interested to see whether he stays more on the path of making smaller, stranger movies, or if he dives into the ‘one for them, one for me’ system.

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