May 132011
It looks like the Wachowski brothers are actually going to film their adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. They’ve cast Hugo Weaving (a.k.a. Agent Smith, a.k.a. Elrond), who can usually be counted on to class up a movie. They’ve also cast Tom Hanks, which seems like an oddly vanilla choice for a twisty, non-linear movie like this. I’m still not completely sold that this adaptation is a good idea; the story is complicated and Hollywood studio execs tend to be allergic to complicated. But I’m willing to withhold judgment at least until I see the trailer.
