Tag: Tom Tykwer
CLOUD ATLAS Concept Art Shows the Vision of 2144 Seoul
The upcoming movie adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 extensive, time hopping novel Cloud Atlas has been much in the news over last year, which was altogether created in an unusual manner due to its high profile cast and directors.
The various segments of the film are being shot simultaneously, with two different units – one directed by Tom Tykwer, the other by the Lana & Andy Wachowski – with cast members including Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw and Jim Broadben, each playing multiple roles in multiple time periods.
Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer Wrapped Principal Photography for CLOUD ATLAS
It all looks rather confusing. I think of the first official image from the people behind the big-screen adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, bearing in mind that the film is a genre-hopping collection of six stories, with Tykwer directing one unit and the Wachowskis directing a second unit in parallel that each tackled three interconnected tales.
First Tom Tykwer’s THREE (Drei) Trailer
Thanks to Hollywood, we know that women are bitches. Destroying a young man’s life is relatively easy for young women all over the world. Still, thanks to the film festivals, we somehow have a chance to see those bitches have decent opponents, which leads us to a simple fact that goes like this – men are bastards! And I don’t want us to argue about that!
One of my favourite movies is definitely Tom Tykwer‘s The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin). When it comes to this project, we have crazy but great story, extraordinary scenes and music, as well as Franka Potente as Sissi and well-known Bodo, played by Benno Fürmann.
Ok, Tykwer is probably best known as a director of Run Lola Run, with Franka Potente again and I guess we all watched that one, right? But I can’t help myself – even in this report I want to share The Princess and The Warrior trailer with you. Why? Well, because I want you to feel bad in case you haven’t seen it yet!
Bae Doona to Join Cloud Atlas
Let’s continue our previous chat about the upcoming adaptation of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas, ok?
Of course, we’re here for the casting update, because we’ve just learned that South Korean actress Bae Doona, lady best known from Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, will join the previously announced Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent.
Sounds interesting, right? If it does, then check out the rest of this report for more details…
Cloud Atlas is “the story presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy.
There is a naive clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage: and aspiring composer who insinuates himself to the home of a syphilitic genius: a journalist investigating a nuclear plant: a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands: and a cloned human being created for slave labour.
These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the story.”
Ben Whishaw and Hugo Weaving Taking on Major Roles in Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas‘s six novella structure has been described as nesting in a Matryoshka doll fashion, a description perhaps imprecise, as the plots, themes, and especially voice and setting vary greatly. Well, the Wachowskis are collaborating with writer Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run helmer ) to adapt Warner Bros./DreamWorks’s Cloud Atlas to a movie.
Furthermore, the Wachowski siblings’ favorite Hugo Weaving, Nigerian born who last month was attached to the film, is now officially signed on. Moreover, Bright Star lead Ben Whishaw, who made his big-screen debut as the star of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (another Twyker’s directing success) is also locked in to the project.
Hugo Weaving to Join Cloud Atlas?
Cloud Atlas adaptation, remember that one? I hope you do, because we’re here to update the whole thing! According to the latest reports, Hugo Weaving is working on the film adaptation of David Mitchell‘s book with the makers of The Matrix – Andy and Lana Wachowski!
That’s kind of official part of this report, because that’s exactly what Australian publishing house Hachette recently shared with all of us on Tweeter. Check out the rest of this report for more interesting details.
So, as we said, Cloud Atlas will be directed by the Wachowskis along with Tom Tykwer, with the budget between $80 million and $100 million.
Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis Direct Cloud Atlas
Tom Tykwer, the German director best known for his Run Lola Run is set to direct Cloud Atlas along with the Wachowski brothers.
That’s the latest news that comes straight from lovely Natalie Portman, who confirmed that it will be “a group effort.”
You already remember our previous reports about Cloud Atlas, movie that has been in development for a while now with Tom Hanks, Natalie Portman, James McAvoy and Halle Berry attached.
“I don’t know what’s going on with financing,” Portman told EW in an interview that’s not online yet.
“I read it while doing [The Wachowski produced] ‘V for Vendetta’ and I gave it to the Wachowskis and to Tom Tykwer (he shot a “Paris Je Taime” short with her around the same time).
Now they’re directing it together, the three of them. I will have some acting role in it if it happens, but probably nothing major.”
Three Directed by Tom Tykwer, Venice Film Festival 2010
Another interesting title at this year’s Venice Film Festival (from September 1 – 11) is the project titled Three (Drei), In Competition, from director Tom Tykwer (we all remember him from movie Run, Lola, Run).
Three
Three is already being described as a “relationship-movie”, about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings, or if you prefer the official synopsis part:
“A love story Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam – and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle is blown – and the question arises: Who is the father?”
Three
Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings.
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy, Natalie Portman in Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas Officially
We already had a little chat about the upcoming Tom Tykwer‘s adaptation of the award-winning novel by British author David Mitchell titled Cloud Atlas, so you all remember that quite interesting names are involved in the whole project.
Today, we’re here to make things official and to report that Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy and Natalie Portman are officially attached to this movie, while Ian McKellan remains a “question mark”.
David Mitchell’s book “consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next.
Cloud Atlas follows: “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.
