A movie adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s unsettling bestseller Never Let Me Go featuring three of Britain’s brightest stars – Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield – is to open this year’s London film festival, it was announced yesterday.

It will be the second film based on an Ishiguro novel to open the festival after Merchant-Ivory’s The Remains of the Day in 1993. “It is a fantastic privilege, I feel very lucky,” Ishiguro said. “To some extent it is a showcase for British talent and it’s a tremendous honour.” Ishiguro’s 2005 novel was adapted into a screenplay by Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later) even before it was published.

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Sandra Hebron, the festival’s artistic director, said the film had originality and ambition. “I’m generally disastrous at predicting what might win prizes but I would be surprised if the film doesn’t feature in the nominations.”

The film will get its European premiere at the festival on 13 October.

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“Never Let Me Go” will premiere at the the Toronto International Film Festival in September! Need I say how much I want our Keira there? Nothing has been confirmed of her presence yet, and we will be posting if something comes out!

Movies starring British actors Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

McAvoy appears alongside Kevin Kline and Robin Wright Penn in Abraham Lincoln assassination story The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford.

Knightley and Mulligan star in British drama Never Let Me Go.

British film Made In Dagenham, starring Sally Hawkins, will also premiere.

The festival kicks off on 9 September.

Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go – which co-stars new Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield – tells the tale of former boarding school pupils who confront their sheltered pasts.

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