Thus Mitchell, 44, currently living in Clonakilty on the southwest coast of Ireland with his Japanese wife Keiko and their two children, received at his local pub a delegation of Hollywood’s finest: the Wachowskis (formerly brothers, now siblings, after Larry ‘transitioned’ into Lana and gained a head of bright pink dreadlocks), along with their chosen co-director, Tom Tykwer, creator of Run Lola Run. ‘We all swore an oath that if he didn’t like it, we would kill the project.’ ‘I was extremely nervous to meet David Mitchell after he read the script,’ Lana Wachowski has said. Filming this unfilmable novel became their next obsession.
A virtuoso novel of interconnected stories, as ingeniously constructed as an origami spaceship, Cloud Atlas was first published in 2004, Man Booker shortlisted in 2005, and became one of those books that people kept pressing on to friends, which is how it reached Lana and Andy Wachowski, the maverick sibling director/writer/producing duo famous for The Matrix trilogy. Some novels develop a momentum of their own, years after publication, and this is happening with his masterwork, Cloud Atlas, which has just been made into an all-star movie that’s thrillingly insane and faultlessly faithful to the spirit of the book. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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