Wachowskis’ ‘Cloud Atlas’ To Set Sail in December 2012 - ScreenRant (18may12)

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Published on Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:41

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Sandy Schaefer
May 18, 2012

Thanks to the ongoing 2012 Cannes Film Festival, we now have an update on perhaps the most daring, big-budgeted sci-fi film on the horizon: the adaptation of David Mitchell’s acclaimed novel Cloud Atlas, as directed by the triumvirate of Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and Matrix creators Andy and Lana Wachowski.

Warner Bros. heads have reportedly approved the directors’ hefty final cut of the film – which clocks in at about 2 hours and 44 minutes. Moreover, the studio has tentative plans to release Cloud Atlas in theaters on December 6th, 2012, so as to qualify the prestigious picture for this year’s Oscars.

Speaking of the Cloud Atlas cast: big names such as Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Keith David, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturges and Ben Whishaw are all tackling multiple roles in the film. The logic behind this unorthodox maneuver is to better reflect the theme of interconnectivity across time, space, and even ethnicity, as featured through the six separate narrative threads found in Mitchell’s original book (and now, this film adaptation). Hence, we will get to see someone like Grant play multiple characters –  varying from a 19th-century gentlemen to a futuristic cannibal dwelling in the Hawaiian mountaintops.

If nothing else, Cloud Atlas seems destined to go down as either a fascinating experiment in grand-scale cinematic storytelling, or a bloated mess that you can’t turn your eyes away from. (Here’s hoping it’s the former.)

To reiterate: Cloud Atlas is tentatively set to arrive in U.S. theaters on December 6th, 2012. We will let you know if that plan changes.

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Source: Indiewire