Check out the Cloud Atlas movie trailer. It’s available exclusively at the Apple iTunes trailer site, so you need QuickTime. And it’s a long trailer, almost 6 minutes long. The movie opens October 26.
WHO’S INVOLVED?
Directors: Andy and Lana Wachowskis (the Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Actors: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Huge Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, Zhou Xun, and many, many more. Not to mention that all the main actors will be playing multiple roles, and even multiple sexes.
MORE DETAILED INFO
When news that Cloud Atlas the novel was going to be made into a movie, there were lots of skepticism and groans, because people who have read the book felt (as I did) that it was unfilmable. The novel is complex and has a truly innovative narrative structure. It’s comprised of six different stories, from six different time periods, set in six different places, told in six different styles (and genres!). But somehow, it works: they all are connected and related and integral to one another. This is not simply a collection of stories sharing superficial connections; the connections here are essential to formulating the overall novelistic impression. While the novel works, the question is: can this be made into a movie? A lot of people are curious. They want to know if the Wachoskis and Tykwer can pull it off. From the trailer, I can’t tell. All six stories are there, and they look spectacular, but can they all come together?
THE HAWAI‘I CONNECTION
The novel’s apex story takes place far in the future when the human race has pretty much wiped itself out, except for small pockets of humans here and there, including a group in Hawai‘i. This story takes place in the Kohala district on the Big Island, where man has been reduced to a tribal existence, and things like cars and airplanes and technology are now myths.
WHO’S INVOLVED?
Directors: Andy and Lana Wachowskis (the Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Actors: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Huge Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, Zhou Xun, and many, many more. Not to mention that all the main actors will be playing multiple roles, and even multiple sexes.
MORE DETAILED INFO
When news that Cloud Atlas the novel was going to be made into a movie, there were lots of skepticism and groans, because people who have read the book felt (as I did) that it was unfilmable. The novel is complex and has a truly innovative narrative structure. It’s comprised of six different stories, from six different time periods, set in six different places, told in six different styles (and genres!). But somehow, it works: they all are connected and related and integral to one another. This is not simply a collection of stories sharing superficial connections; the connections here are essential to formulating the overall novelistic impression. While the novel works, the question is: can this be made into a movie? A lot of people are curious. They want to know if the Wachoskis and Tykwer can pull it off. From the trailer, I can’t tell. All six stories are there, and they look spectacular, but can they all come together?
THE HAWAI‘I CONNECTION
The novel’s apex story takes place far in the future when the human race has pretty much wiped itself out, except for small pockets of humans here and there, including a group in Hawai‘i. This story takes place in the Kohala district on the Big Island, where man has been reduced to a tribal existence, and things like cars and airplanes and technology are now myths.
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