I nearly jumped with glee when I saw news over at Filmstalker that Tom Tykwer of Run Lola Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is teaming up with the Wachowski Brothers in the adaptation of “Cloud Atlas”, David Mitchell’s Booker Prize winning novel.
Dear god…could this really be happening? Three of my favourite directors working together? According to the original news source Tykwer says that “it is a really fascinating and ultra-demanding concept which I am developing with the Wachowski brothers for me to direct.”
I’ve never read the novel but looking over the wikipedia entry, I can understand why he’d need the help with the adaptation; I’m having a hard time figuring out what the book is about outside of the fact that it spans from the 19th century to the “post-apocalyptic future”; three of my favourite words.
I’m sold.
@ it is a really fascinating and ultra-demanding concept which I am developing with the Wachowski brothers for me to direct.
That makes it sound like the W brothers are writing the screenplay. I’ve never finished it but I am familiar enough with the book to know it’s complex and layered.
If they do to this what they did to V for Vendetta this is going to be an atrocity.
They should adapt another cartoon.