It was announced in 2009, that the Wachowski Brothers had bought the rights to the novel, Cloud Atlas. It was also said that writer/director Tom Tykwer would be working on a screenplay. After that we haven’t heard much. Now after quite some time, we finally have an update on this adaptation…
Tom Hanks tops the A-list of actors approached by the sibling producers to star in the film, followed closely by hot commodity James McAvoy, Gandalf himself Ian McKellen, Natalie Portman, and Halle Berry. According to The Playlist, who caught the news on Production Weekly, fans of Mitchell’s work should be able to easily place the actors with their respective roles. Cloud Atlas sounds daunting, as it spans six story lines over a millenia, but the unfilmable nature of the story is probably what drew the risk taking Wachowskis to the project.
