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by Brendan Bettinger Posted:December 27th, 2011 at 9:33 am
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We saw the first image from production on The Wachowskis‘ Cloud Atlas last week. The photo teased fans of the book with various artifacts strewn about the room, but left the rest of us in the dark as to what Cloud Atlas will look like. A new image has surfaced along with two pieces of concept art that provide a little more insight. One of the images is labeled “Seoul, 2144.” Unsurprisingly, a futuristic world imagined by The Wachowskis and co-director Tom Tykwer is very enticing.
The movie is an ambitious adaptation of the book by David Mitchell, which tells six stories that span multiple continents and centuries. Halle Barry, Hugh Grant, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, and Jim Sturgess will play multiple roles in the film. Hit the jump to check out the images.
The first is a still of Korean star Bae Doona (The Host) posted over at Han Cinema [via Twitch]. She will play Sonmi-451, a “genetically-engineered fabricant (clone).”
I hesitate to conclude too much based on concept art. And despite knowing essentially nothing about the story, I am already checked in due to the Wachowski brand. But I do love a good tale of a dystopian future, so this is very encouraging. Based on what I do know about the story, dystopian future is just one of the many settings Cloud Atlas will tackle. Now that production is wrapped, I hope we see more from all eras of the movie very soon.
Here is the synopsis for Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas:
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation — the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. [Amazon]
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I wanna see what 2144 looks like for real
holy shit! BLADE RUNNER-esque. i wanna see it too for real. i’m curious if they’re going for cartoonish again like in Speedracer(which is fine by the tone of the movie). if the effects here are photorealistic, then i would assume it’s a very serious book.
really looks like blade runner and tron legacy
“Seoul, 2144″ That is a good starting point for a film, to put it mildly.
Let’s hope it will not look like Speed Racer. ’cause it was awful.
The Wachowski’s (whatever gender either of them are these days!) films are always visually impressive, and they are undeniably highly intelligent and talented writers and filmmakers, but they really need to start maturing, and drop the sleaze, S&M fetishes, and anti-corporate/conservative stances, they’re getting tiresome now! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if ‘Cloud Atlas’ doesn’t do boffo business at the box-office, the Wachowski’s will be lucky to ever get a big-budget project of their own choosing ever again, but then again, it IS Hollyweird…
Yeah, seems like they’re stuck at a high school Sophomore maturity level. V for Vendetta was laughably simplistic (or should have been) for anyone older than 16. And then there’s Speed Racer…
It’s kind of standard Hollywood practice that if bankable directors start producing original material that bombs at the box office, they offer them big budgets with the stipulation that they work on someone else’s written work, complete with a built-in, proven audience.
Example: Zack Snyder (from Sucker Punch to having projects shelved to focus on Superman) , um. And I guess the Wachowskis, post Speed Racer.
V for Vendetta would’ve been a million times MORE simplistic, if it had been done by the Wachowskis. As it was, it was directed by one of their Art Directors so … it came out a little ahead of being dumbed down.
Source material is smart as Hell, though. Make no mistake!