Concept Art & First Still From Tom Tykwer & The Wachowski’s ‘Cloud Atlas’

Han Cinema has premiered these two pieces of concept art and first look at Bae Doona (The Host) in Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run & Perfume) and The Wachowski’s (The Matrix trilogy) ’Cloud Atlas.’ The film stars Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant and Doona, all of whom are expected to play multiple parts, including cross-gendered roles, each set in a different place and era. ‘Cloud Atlas’ is scheduled for release October 26th in the US, while the UK release date is currently TBC. The film is an adaptation of David Mitchell’s epic novel of the same name. Check out the synopsis for the book below.

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; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation — the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.