Today, producers Grant Hill and Stefan Arndt announce
that CLOUD ATLAS will begin filming on September 16th. The ambitious, independently financed film will be co-directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, directors/writers of the ground-breaking MATRIX trilogy, and Tom Tykwer director/writer of PERFUME and RUN LOLA RUN.
We’ve known that Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Halle Berry lead an all-star ensemble cast that includes Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, David Gyasi, Zhou Xun, Doona Bae and Susan Sarandon. But today it has been revealed that Hugh Grant and the ever-awesome Keith David have also joined the cast.
CLOUD ATLAS is an epic story of humankind in which the actions and
consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and
future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of
kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution.
The Wachowskis and Tykwer co-wrote CLOUD ATLAS, an adaptation of
the celebrated best-selling novel by David Mitchell. Their unique creative
collaboration began several years ago and has resulted in a vision that involves
simultaneous filming of two full units that will take them to Scotland, Spain and
Germany.
CLOUD ATLAS will be distributed in the United States and Canada
by Warner Bros. Pictures and in Germany, Austria and German-speaking
Switzerland by X-Filme-Verleih.
Give the Wachowski’s this: When they choose a project, they choose ambitiously.
Halle Berry