D'Alessandro, Anthony (8 June 2018). "Theresa Park's Pow! Developing Alexander Weinstein Short Story 'Saying Goodbye To Yang' For Big Screen". Deadline.

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They live a fairly good life, as Jake runs a tea shop and Kyra leads a stressful but undisclosed role, and they take part in family dance competitions, making it clear that the latest arrival is seen as a second child instead of a service. However, their lives are uprooted when Yang suddenly malfunctions and Jake embarks on a long and twisting route to fixing him, discovering that the techno has been storing secrets of his own. Kim, Leo (March 10, 2022). " After Yang intentionally subverts sci-fi's fetishistic 'hollow Asian' trope". Polygon . Retrieved March 11, 2022. Zemler, Emily (March 2, 2022). " After Yang: Fixing an Android Leads to a Precise, Beautiful Examination of What It Means to Be Human". The Observer . Retrieved March 11, 2022. Based on the 2016 short story, Saying Goodbye To Yang, by Alexander Weinstein, After Yang tells the story of Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), their adoptive daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) and “techno-sapien” sibling Yang. When Yang experiences a critical malfunction, Jake sets out to find a way to repair him but prepares for the worst, learning more about his robotic son and his impact on the family in the process.Don’t Worry Darling, Venice review: Harry Styles is charisma-free in Olivia Wilde’s messy sci-fi thriller Yang’s memory is on a chip that Jake manages to plug into his V.R. glasses. (They resemble ordinary granny glasses with opaque lenses.) Not to leap too far into spoilers, but the shards of memory that Yang preserved reflect his own devotion to Mika. Kogonada dramatically aestheticizes the android’s memories, evoking them through a three-dimensional array of lights that resemble stars. They reveal that, contrary to all that one might assume about a robot, Yang has a complex emotional life that reaches far beyond the vocabulary with which he can describe it. What’s more, his emotional attachments extend to another adopted Chinese child, who was part of the family that first owned Yang, and also to a young woman named Ada (played by Haley Lu Richardson), who is a clone—a category of person against whom Jake (and seemingly not Jake alone) is prejudiced. (There’s a museum of “technos” that puts the remains of nonfunctioning ones on display. It resembles, above all, the horrific “ Bodies” exhibit at the South Street Seaport in the early two thousands that displayed dissected and plastinated cadavers imported from China.)

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Kogonada (who also adapted the script from an Alexander Weinstein short story) isn't that interested in the hardware that makes up Yang, but, his inner "thoughts" - his very notion of existence (the science fiction elements are handled quite well). What's fascinating here is that this is truly a two-way interaction - the family is as tied emotionally to Yang as the robot is in its role as an adopted family member. Haley Lu Richardson plays Ada, another character who's questioning her own existential being. Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films, Indie Episodic, New Frontier Lineups Announced – sundance.org" . Retrieved 2022-01-16. Pulliam-Moore, Charles (2022-02-01). "Death is not the end of life in After Yang's first trailer". The Verge . Retrieved 2022-02-01. Mike Jr, Fleming (28 February 2019). "A24 Greenlights 'After Yang'; Colin Farrell To Star & Kogonada To Direct". Deadline.Comparisons between Kogonada’s new film, “After Yang,” and his earlier one, “Columbus,” are inevitable, and their differences obscure the big idea that unites them. “After Yang” is a science-fiction film, set in a vague future time at an unspecified place, seemingly in the United States; its title character is an android, or “technosapien.” “Columbus,” his first feature, from 2017, is set in its own present day, in the real-life city of Columbus, Indiana, and centered on a young woman played by Haley Lu Richardson. “After Yang” is a synthetic work of dystopian imagination, and “ Columbus” is a carefully realistic view of its place and time. Nonetheless, the two films are propelled by the same impulse: the artistic basis of mental life, the politics of aesthetics. McNary, Dave (28 February 2019). "Colin Farrell to Star in A24 Robot Drama 'After Yang' ". Variety. Yu, Brandon (March 4, 2022). "With His Sci-Fi Android, a Filmmaker Considers What It Means to Be Alive". The New York Times . Retrieved March 7, 2022. In June 2018, it was reported that producer Theresa Park had acquired screen rights to "Saying Goodbye to Yang", a short story written by Alexander Weinstein. The film would be written and directed by Kogonada. [4] In February 2019, it was announced that Colin Farrell would star in After Yang, which would be distributed by A24. [5] [6] In April 2019, Golshifteh Farahani, Justin H. Min, Sarita Choudhury, and Haley Lu Richardson joined the cast. [7] In May 2019, Jodie Turner-Smith and Clifton Collins Jr. joined the cast, with Turner-Smith replacing Farahani. [8] [9] Principal photography began on May 1, 2019. [10] Release [ edit ]