An artificial friend waits in a storefront window. Taika Waititi's Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation now has a trailer and an October release.

The first trailer for Klara and the Sun arrived this week, offering an early look at Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel. Jenna Ortega stars as Klara, an Artificial Friend: a solar-powered robot sold from a storefront window, waiting to be chosen.

Klara is selected by a teenager named Josie, played by newcomer Mia Tharia, despite her mother's reservations. As Klara adapts to the household and observes human behavior with careful attention, the film turns on questions of longing, obsolescence, and what it means to be expendable.

"AFs are like a blank canvas," Ortega's Klara says in the trailer. "We come out of the lab with the intelligence of a toddler, and then we learn everything from our humans."

Amy Adams, Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi, and Aran Murphy round out the cast. Waititi co-wrote the screenplay with Dahvi Waller. Nobel laureate Ishiguro served as executive producer; producers include David Heyman and Garrett Basch.

Klara and the Sun opens October 23, 2026, through Sony 3000 Pictures and Spyglass Media.