‘Cloud Atlas’ Concept Art Shows The Corporate-Run Future Version Of Korea
We’ve talked a lot aboutCloud Atlas, which seesTom Tykwerteaming up withAndy and Lana Wachowskito head up parallel film units each shooting three tales adapted fromDavid Mitchell’s novel. The cast is great (Tom Hanks,Halle Berry,Hugo Weaving,Ben Whishaw,Susan Sarandon,Jim Broadbent,Hugh GrantandBae Doona) and we’ve gone over and over about how the actors areplaying multiple roles, genders and races. It’s big ambitious stuff, but if you haven’t read the novel it might also be easy to get totally lost in all the explanation. (Having read the book, it becomes a lot more clear, I promise.)
We;ve seen a fewon-set photosand recently got aproduction wrap photothat shows a few of the props and set dressing bits used in the film.
But how about a couple more images? There is now one shot that suggests a lot about how the book’s six stories are being visually connected, as it shows the ship from the first tale seemingly approaching the dystopian version of Seoul, South Korea that is the setting for the fifth. There is also a great concept rendering of Seoul in the year 2144, complete with a high-speed pursuit in progress. And, as a bonus, we’ve got an actual shot of South Korean actress Bae Doona as she appears in the film. Check ‘em all out below.
So here we’ve got Bae Doona as the title character from the story ‘An Orison of Sonmi~451,’ and the rendering of Seoul (called Nea So Copros in the novel) shows a highlight from the climax of that story. We’ll see how the image featuring the ship and the city fits in, but I imagine we might see some other similar transitions between the film’s various stories, the better to emphasize that there is one soul moving between all the tales.
Cloud Atlasis in post-production now and should be released late next year.
[Han Cinema, viaTwitch]
