Extensive Cloud Atlas Featurette With New Behind-The-Scenes Footage & Cast Reactions

CLOUD ATLAS comes from the extraordinary mind of novelist David Mitchell (not PEEPSHOW David Mitchell), and has been adapted for the screen by the Wachowskis and co-director Tom Twyker. A huge hit at the Toronto Film festival 2012, CLOUD ATLAS has so far received a relatively low-key welcome to the filmic hall of fame compared to other epic cinematic experiments of recent years, such as INCEPTION or AVATAR.

CLOUD ATLAS is set to not only play with the genre boundaries, but push past them to create a genre almost of its own. Released 22nd February 2013, it remains to be seen whether the UK critics will be as rapturous as the cult fans this film will undoubtedly accrue.

Directed by Tom Tykwer, and Andy and Lana Wachowski, CLOUD ATLAS is set in multiple countries across the past, present and future. Its cast includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Doona Bae, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Keith David, Ben Whishaw and James D’Arcy. Each play numerous characters, all set in different eras with apparently nothing in common with each other. Check out the official blurb:

“CLOUD ATLAS explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.”

Below is an all-new featurette with reactions from the actors and directors on how they entered into the most challenging roles of their careers – including the connectivity of the characters and how this was achieved by the visionary ideas of Tyker and the Wachowskis.

Source:  Collider