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TOM HANKS SOARS TO CLOUD ATLAS WITH THE WACHOWSKIS

post #1 of 6
4/12/11 at 4:25pm
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by Elisabeth Rappe: link

Tom Hanks signs on for some spiritual sci-fi.
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post #2 of 6
4/12/11 at 4:36pm

Its been way too long since i saw something with any of the three directors' names on it. Whatever this turns into, I'm anxious to see it.

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post #3 of 6
4/12/11 at 6:26pm
Well that's certainly a vague synopsis, and the 'interlocking stories' device (Which has always been one of my least favourite narrative styles) makes it feel doubly indistinct. Still, the Hanks/Wachowskis team sounds interesting and it'd be nice to see the twins have another crack at huge-scale sci fi.
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post #4 of 6
4/12/11 at 8:39pm

Can a story this huge and complex and yet intimate be faithfully translated to the big screen? If there's one thing the Wachowskis aren't, it's subtle.

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post #5 of 6
4/12/11 at 11:56pm

This seems way too big of a concept to ever work. I hope it does, though.

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post #6 of 6
4/13/11 at 3:18am

Only two of the six sections of the book are sci-fi, the others cover quite a few different styles and genres. The book is unique, but I only found it interesting as a self-consciously clever stylistic and conceptual exercise. The actual stories and characters themselves were pretty forgettable and perfunctory, a real slog to get through at times.

 

A good movie could be made of it though. I found the most interesting things about the book were the 'bigger picture' aspects, and condensing the whole thing to screenplay length could play to the book's strengths, namely the huge amount of variety in the different stories and the clever russian doll structure.

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