Jul 272012
The first trailer for the movie adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is up and it looks, well, awesome! Regular readers of this blog know that Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite books, so I’m doing my best to maintain some perspective lest Hollywood disappoint me yet again. I’m a little wary of the Tom Hanks-Halle Berry dynamic, but the trailer gives the impression that movie follows the novel fairly closely. The scenes of future Korea and far-future Hawaii (two key sections of the book) have my inner geek begging for more. Even if the movie falls short, I suspect I’ll enjoy it. To paraphrase a couple of my friends who share my love for the book, it could be a mess, but a beautiful mess.
