Keira Knightley is set to headline dystopian sci-fi film Conception, a near-future thriller in which the British government has taken control of parenting.
As per Deadline, the Academy Award nominated Knightley will reteam with her Silent Night director Camille Griffin for the totalitarian tale Conception.
The official synopsis for the film reads: “Conception is a sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future of Britain, where the government has taken authoritarian rule over parenting. The film follows Rita (Knightley), a loyal civil servant and believer in the unforgiving system she upholds, until unexpected events endanger her own parental status, rendering her victim to the same laws she so readily inflicted on others.”
Griffin told Deadline that “I’m lucky to have found Keira. She is as great an ally as she is a talent. I plan to make a unique and exciting film together.”
Conception would see Knightley return to the kind of bleak Brit-based science-fiction fable that served her so well in Mark Romanek’s superb Never Let Me Go.
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