A Solar-Powered Fable About Love, Loss And Loyalty
Meet Klara. Your new best artificial friend.
The official trailer for Klara And The Sun has arrived, giving a first real look at the upcoming sci-fi dystopian drama starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne and Taika Waititi.
Directed by Taika Waititi and based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, the film is set to arrive in theaters on October 23, 2026.
The story follows Klara, played by Jenna Ortega, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When she meets Josie, played by Mia Tharia, the two immediately sense a kindred spirit in each other.
Jenna Ortega stars as Klara, an Artificial Friend searching for a home in Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel.
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Amy Adams plays Josie’s mother, a woman carrying grief, fear and a difficult relationship with her daughter. Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to soften the edges of that family wound, bringing light into Josie’s complicated world.
It is a sharp fit for Waititi, who appears to be leaning into a more emotionally dramatic register here. The trailer frames Klara not as a cold robot-girl gimmick, but as a strange, glowing mirror for loneliness, love and what humans ask technology to fix.
Ortega’s Klara is built around curiosity instead of menace, which gives the film its emotional hook. She is artificial, yes, but the question the trailer keeps pressing is whether human devotion becomes less real when it arrives through a manufactured body.
That is the Ishiguro of it all: a futuristic premise that is really about memory, loss, care and the aching human need to be chosen.
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The gallery gives another look at Taika Waititi’s adaptation, with Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams and the film’s luminous AI-meets-family-drama atmosphere.
Klara And The Sun is already giving the kind of elegant, slightly unsettling science-fiction that does not need lasers to feel futuristic. It is softer than that, and maybe creepier because of it.
If the trailer is any indication, Waititi’s film is chasing something more tender than tech panic: a story about an artificial friend trying to understand what love costs when humans are the ones breaking.
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Sources: Sony Pictures surfaced the official trailer; People confirmed the trailer, cast and October 23 release; Vanity Fair provided additional first-look context; Rotten Tomatoes provided the official synopsis details.
