'Cloud Atlas' cast talk multiple storylines in new featurette - watch
Published Oct 12 2012, 21:00 BST | By Justin Harp
A new featurette from the Tom Hanks science-fantasy epic Cloud Atlas has been unveiled in a UK exclusive on Digital Spy.The video shows stars including Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw and Jim Sturgess talking about their experiences working on the movie, in addition to author David Mitchell.
The Matrix filmmakers Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski have teamed up with Run Lola Run's Tom Tykwer to direct Cloud Atlas.
Hanks heads a cast of international stars in a tale which explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future.
Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.
Susan Sarandon also appears in Cloud Atlas and recently said starring in the movie was akin to "being in a circus".
"It was a fun group - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry - they gave themselves over to the big ideas in the film," she explained. "I was so tickled they brought me over to do a bunch of little parts. It was insane in the best way possible."
Whishaw also shed light on Cloud Atlas's millennia-spanning stories in a September interview.
"The six stories are plaited together from the start… But it also means there's this lovely kind of blending so that in a way it all becomes one story," Whishaw teased.
"It's a strange thing to describe, but when I read it I thought, 'If they pull this off it could be really unique', particularly because the actors keep popping up in different stories."
Cloud Atlas opens in the US on October 26, 2012 and in the UK on February 22, 2013. Watch a trailer for the movie below:
Photo gallery - 'Cloud Atlas':
Cloud Atlas picture gallery: Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.
i've just started reading this to prepare myself for the film. like hell am i gonna wait another 6 months just to see it in UK cinemas though lmao
October 13th 2012 at 1:20pm
Way to lose money. We won't wait 4months after release.
October 13th 2012 at 10:06am
Sounds interesting. I saw the book in my old secondary school library but never really thought of picking it up. I might read it now before the movie comes out :)
October 12th 2012 at 9:39pm
why would you purposly read the book when you KNOW the movie is coming out? the only purpose that can possibly do it to ruin the movie. I always get annoyed by people who say things like "Angel's and Demons was rubbish, the book was much better" well of course it was coz you ruined all the plot twists coz you read the stupid book first! Imagine reading "The Usual Suspects" book or "fight club" before you watched the film....of course the films will not be as good! Or all those stupid people who went out and bought the Hunger Games trilogy after watching the first movie. Of course the next two movies aren't going to seem as good! Save the book until AFTER you've watched the movie! You know what, we should just ban books. Their only purpose seems to be to ruin a good movie!
October 13th 2012 at 4:32pm
There are so many things wrong with that comment I don't know where to begin.
October 13th 2012 at 5:21pm(+1 like)
it was only semi-serious. Seriously though, I dont know why people read the books and then go to the film and say "it wasn't as good as the book" Those people should be banned from watching movie's ever again.
October 13th 2012 at 6:04pm
wh.. what? who gave you internet access? that decision definitely needs to be revoked if you're gonna start throwing around ignorant, thoughtless comments like that. by that logic harry potter fans should've disregarded the movies entirely if they'd read the books beforehand and vice-versa. what you're clearly not taking into consideration is that people are capable of appreciating a movie and a book as separate bodies of work. i'm one of those "stupid people" who read the hunger games novels AND saw the first movie, and those experiences certainly weren't ruined by the fact i already knew what would happen. if a novel is adapted into a movie PROPERLY and the direction and acting is solid then there's no reason why one can't enjoy a movie if they've read the novel first.
stupid. stupid. stupid.
October 13th 2012 at 6:08pm
why are we getting it six months late? Just in time for Oscars I guess, but we'll have all piratebay'ed it by then!
October 12th 2012 at 9:19pm