Nesta Cooper is ready to star in and write the Bethany C. Morrow adaptation MEM, which offers with zombie-like creatures
Nesta Cooper has racked up greater than 30 appearing credit over the past decade, with roles in such tasks as Kemba, Chilly Copy, Bliss, Spy Children: Mission Important, Supergirl, and The Fringe of Seventeen. She could also be finest identified for enjoying Haniwa on 24 episodes of the TV collection See, or Carly Shannon on 34 episodes of the collection Vacationers. Now The Hollywood Reporter has damaged the information that she’s set so as to add one other appearing credit score to her filmography, as she’ll be starring within the sci-fi thriller MEM – and with this film, she’ll even be incomes her first writing credit score, as she’s at the moment writing the screenplay.
Primarily based on the Bethany C. Morrow novel of the identical title (you possibly can choose up a duplicate HERE), MEM will inform the story of a scientist in Montreal who discovers the right way to extract reminiscences from folks and switch them into zombie-like creatures referred to as Mems.
Morrow’s novel has the next description: Set within the glittering artwork deco world of a century in the past, MEM makes one slight alteration to historical past: a scientist in Montreal discovers a technique permitting folks to have their reminiscences extracted from their minds, entire and full. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their supply ― zombie-like creatures destined to expertise that singular reminiscence again and again, till they expire within the cavernous Vault the place they’re saved. After which there’s Dolores Extract #1, the primary Mem able to creating her personal reminiscences. An ageless magnificence shrouded in thriller, she is allowed to reside on her personal, and create her personal existence, till someday she is summoned again to the Vault. What occurs subsequent is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel within the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro’s By no means Let Me Go. Debut novelist Bethany Morrow has created an allegory for our personal time, exploring profound questions of possession, and the way they relate to identification, reminiscence and historical past, all within the shadows of Montreal’s now forgotten slave commerce.
Cooper had this to say concerning the adaptation: “I’m actually grateful to have the ability to collaborate with a author as prolific as Bethany. Regardless of the profound and oftentimes horror-like themes in her work, her voice provides an indescribable consolation. Her tales are so deep and lively that they immerse you utterly of their world.“
Sanjay M. Sharma and Milan Chakraborty are producing MEM for Marginal, whereas Jennifer Kawaja and Peter Van Auker do the identical for Sphere Media. Cooper and Morrow are government producers – and this additionally occurs to be Cooper’s first producing credit score. Filming is predicted to happen in Montreal subsequent 12 months.
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