Tom Hanks Attached to Cloud Atlas Adaptation
Tom Hanks will star in Cloud Atlas, an upcoming Focus Features adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 book about six interconnected stories with settings ranging from the 19th century South Pacific to the post-apocalyptic future. Matrix directors Andy and Lana Wachowski and Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer will helm and co-write the movie. Honestly, Hanx; another post-apocalyptic movie? Punchline was quite enough. [Deadline]
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Too bad it's not the same Wachowskis that made The Matrix, or the same Tykwer that made Run Lola Run instead of Speed Racer Wachowskis and International Tykwer.
(That's not a dig at Lana Wachowski, by the way. At least not about the sex change part).
I've read Cloud Atlas and it's nearly unfilmable. The narratives aren't even neat and packaged but interconnected and mostly open-ended.
This seems like a terrible idea to me.