Charlie Kaufman and Reed Morano to adapt The Memory Police for Amazon

Amazon is making a big swing for what sounds like a pretty high-profile project: According to Variety, the mega-retailer/streaming platform has hired Charlie Kaufman to write a feature adaptation of Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, with award-winning Handmaid’s Tale director Reed Morano set to go behind the camera. The book, which sounds appropriately Kaufman-esque (so he should be able to have some fun with it), takes place on an unnamed island where normal everyday things keep disappearing and most of the people on the island forget they ever existed. Those who do remember live in fear of the Memory Police, an organization that does… pretty much what you’d think it does.