We’ve got another potential addition to The Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending, and it’s a guy currently in the press for his role in Les Miserables, Eddie Redmayne. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because this isn’t Eddie’s first rodeo with an Oscar-buzzed movie, as he was actually the lead of the much-buzzed My Week With Marilyn from last year. He was quite good in it, if overshadowed by the eponymous performance from Michelle Williams.
In any event, the Les Miserables star is apparently circling an unspecified role that will put him alongside Channing Tatum (as a character named Django!) and Mila Kunis (as the ascending “Jupiter”).
All we have on the film is a hodgepodge of small details about the universe that make it clear the film is an inter-stellar Snow White tale, with a whole lot of scifi layers on top. Kunis will play a poor immigrant woman on Earth who shares perfected DNA with the greatest being in a universe that is actually filled with heightened beings that have evolved past humanity. When said “greatest being, Queen of the Universe” dispatches someone to assassinate the poor immigrant and he falls in love with her instead… well you get the picture.
Tatum has talked up the epic and revolutionary filmmaking the Wachowskis are cooking up for the film (I totally believe it), and on this side of the disappointing domestic response to Cloud Atlas it’s good to see their next studio flick move forward. I had no doubt in my mind that Warner Brothers would still be in the blockbuster business with the siblings, but that no momentum has been lost on this particular project is heartening. I can’t wait to start hearing and seeing more from two of the most interesting directors currently working.
Source | THR
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Two of the most interesting directors currently working? If by “interesting” you mean architects of self-indulgent wankery with oodles of superfluous hipster-friendly pop philosophy babble, all wrapped up in an aspartame flavored pretention sweetener – I agree 100%.
how come this thing hasnt been shut down after the failure of Cloud Atlas? Don’t these guys go to director jail after a double flop? Strange how Hollywood works sometimes. Personally I’m more than happy that they’ll keep working.
Fuck it, don’t care about what effect Cloud Atlas had on their future prospects; the Wachowskis, regardless of their particular brand of metaphysics 101, put out at least interesting shit into the aether.
But yeah, don’t know how the movie industry can ‘allow’ them to do another trippy sci-fi epic aside from, you know, that one time back in the day when they generated a fuckton of cash/hype for WB in the lead-up to The Matrix Reloaded.
Cloud Atlas was not a studio property and was independently financed. THAT is why they were and are less likely to be given dirty looks from execs.
Keeping them sweet for the inevitable “Matrix Rebooted”.
Having three of your four big studio projects bring in a fuck-ton of money kinda gives you a lot of leeway. Also, for better or worse (better, in my eyes), Warner Brothers loves the duo and have been eager to keep them around ever since the first Matrix. They still get offered almost every big genre project that WB greenlights.
Totally agree with you that it’s for better. The Wachowskis are not bad filmmakers and shouldn’t get the same amount of vitriol that other, more deserving ‘hacky’ directors seem to get from us.
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