Cloud Atlas

[Vulcan59]

Anyone read this book yet? The storyline for the movie sounds interesting. Written by David Mitchell and the reviews can be read here. Made into a movie and directed by 3 directors, Tom Tykwer, Lana and Andy Wachowski and schedule for release in October 2012. This movie was rejected by the studios and was eventually financed by people from all over the world. Interview with the 3 directors here and an extended trailer for the movie here.

[voyageur]

Sounds interesting based on some of the comments. The Video Trailer would not play (from link), however, will watch for it elsewhere. Thanks for posting about this.

[aimarok]

Here is another trailer link _http://www.hulu.com/watch/385113

[Approaching Infinity]

I've read Mitchell's "Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet", which I really liked. I think I'll check out Cloud Atlas (book and film).

[voyageur]

Here is another trailer link _http://www.hulu.com/watch/385113

Thank you.

[Kios]

Ouuuuuuuuuuuh !! The trailer just gave me the shiver !! I will definitely watch that one, thank you for sharing 

spoiler :
(that part where it is said that everything is connected, is the moment were I really felt my airs raising everywhere)

[QuantumLogic]

I am really not into movies anymore, but this took my breath away. I almost started crying watching the trailer. It looks absolutely beautiful! What a wonderful story. For the first time in a long while, I will be going to a theater to see this. Thanks.

[Rick3]

This one really grabbed me. Definitely going to watch it on the big screen.

[PerfectCircle]

In the sea of bad movies coming from Hollywood lately, this seems like a light from the depth!
Definitely watching this

[DreamGod]

I must say it may be a great movie, I spect a lot from this one. I like to thing that in some movies there is some true behind, and just some people are capable of see it. Like if someone is trying to give pieces of the puzzle but in some way that it wont be so obviously. Just a though 

[MK Scarlett]

This trailer gave me shivers, what is of good omen at least for what concerns me... Thank you for the sharing!

[melatonin]

Reminds me of the film "The Fountain".

[bngenoh]

I agree that it's a pretty cool loking movie, the song was awesome. If anyone else is looking for it, it is outro by M83. Listen to it here: _http://vimeo.com/30427769

I'm the king of my own land.
Facing tempests of dust, I'll fight until the end.
Creatures of my dreams raise up and dance with me!
Now and forever, I'm your king!

These "creatures of my dreams" have already risen and are dancing with me, it's getting them to stop that is the hard part. 

[Heimdallr]

I was reading an interview with Hugo Weaving about his career where he discussed the movie and what it was like to work on it and thought it was really interesting:

AVC: Cloud Atlas seems like an enormously complicated project, combining six stories shot by two sets of directors: the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. How does that work?

HW: That was the most wonderful adventure, really. It was an extraordinary time in Berlin. Absolutely wonderful experience. I think everyone agreed it was like nothing anyone had ever done before, running from one director to another or from one set to another, potentially playing up to, well, I suppose up to six characters in one week. That’s a very unusual experience. And then there’s a lot of downtime because there’s six stories going on and you’re not in every part of every one of those stories. A lot of the English actors would be able to go home for a week or two and then come back, but because I live in Australia and I was in Berlin, I just stayed. So I lived in Berlin for three and a half months, which was actually a dream come true. I loved it. It’s a very special project, and a wonderful, wonderful book, and a really great script adaptation. Something that in the end, after the readthrough—which was really exciting, all the actors there at the beginning of the shoot—I think everyone realized, despite all the preparatory work that had been done, there were certain things which we weren’t going to know about until we jumped in and did it. So we all took a sort of big, brave leap and jumped in and started filming, and it was a really, genuinely exciting adventure. I’m as eager as anyone else to see it. I think it’s a really, really brave, difficult project that could be very exciting to watch. I hope it is. I think everyone really loved working on it.

AVC: How did splitting the stories up work in practical terms?

HW: There were three stories each, basically. Lana and Andy [Wachowski] did three, and Tom did three. Tom’s crew was largely the crew he’s worked with for years, and Lana and Andy’s crew—a lot of the crew were English, and some of them had worked on V For Vendetta and had worked with them in Berlin in the past as well. That was the division of labor: three stories each. Actually, I think initially Tom had wanted to do one particular story and Lana and Andy had wanted to do another one, and they needed to swap because of the way the locations were set up. They ended up not doing one of the stories they particularly wanted to do; they just swapped. They have an incredibly good relationship, Tom and Lana and Andy. It was delightful to first meet Tom on a video-conference Skype with Lana and Andy, who I know very well, and just see immediately that they were literally bouncing off each other and were getting on very, very well. And that was maintained all the way through the shoot. The editing process is something I’m not so sure about. I think that would have been more problematic and difficult, but I suspect, knowing the three of them, that they got on extremely well throughout that and managed to express what they wanted and to fight for the film as they all talked about it in the first place. I don’t envisage there being any problems between the three of them. I think that’s kind of remarkable. A testament to all three of them, actually.

[voyageur]

Yes, that is rather interesting how they approached it.

...I think that would have been more problematic and difficult, but I suspect, knowing the three of them, that they got on extremely well throughout that and managed to express what they wanted and to fight for the film as they all talked about it in the first place. I don’t envisage there being any problems between the three of them. I think that’s kind of remarkable. A testament to all three of them, actually.

Seem this would be a difficult process in any film, often getting watered down, yet here they seemed to have worked in a very collinear way according to Hugo Weaving.