Must Watch: 5-Minute Trailer for ‘Cloud Atlas’ with Tom Hanks, Halle Berry & More
You don’t see five minute trailers released every day, but then again, three hour movies aren’t released every day either. We receive both from Cloud Atlas, the latest film from Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix, V for Vendetta) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run).
As shown in the trailer, the movie follows six sets of stories, and how each story and its characters are connected. That sounds like a movie that could be mishandled quite easily, but it appears that the Wachowskis have managed the adaptation quite well. From the looks of it, the movie will be no holds barred, willing to take its characters to whatever depths needed to tell the story, which adds to the excitment. And it seems like its been forever since we’ve gotten anything from Halle Berry, so it’s great to see her in a project like this. And she has plenty of help, as the film also stars Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Wishaw, Keith David, Jim Broadbent, and Doona Bae.
Cloud Atlas is due out in theaters on October 26.
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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I really like it. It looks epic. Plus it has quite a good cast- love Whishaw and Hanks and Sturgess and Sarandon and Grant and Broadbent.
Epic indeed. Almost nothing better than a well made epic.
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Thanks. And the trailer does indeed look epic. Will be interesting to see if the movie lives up to the trailer
Wow…. this looks pretty fucking epic indeed. I want to see this!
It certainly looks impressive but theres a lot going on. I don’t know anything about the story so it will be interesting to see how this all ties together.
Trailer captures the (controlled) chaos of the massive, intricately-structured novel. I couldn’t get through the book–British postmodernism has a different feeling than American postmodernism–but Mitchell writes beautifully. Filming a movie that spans so many countries, centuries, emotions, aesthetics, and atmospheres cannot be easy. I like the trailer; I think the Wachowskis have the ambition, and audacity, to pull something like this off, but the CGI is kind of bleh at times.
This looks incredibly ambitious and it will be really interesting to see whether the movie will be coherent enough to work. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what is going on in the trailer but it’s certainly one of the most intriguing cinematic enterprise in a long while.
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