BOOKS ABOUT TO BECOME MOVIES
CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
Status: Set for release sometime in late 2012.
Who's involved: The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer directing, with Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and many more in the cast.
Why you should read the book first: Mitchell's wide-ranging, centuries and genre-spanning novel may very well be unadaptable as a movie, and even if the Wachowskis and Tykwer do a fantastic job, you'll probably be glad to have the book as background before going into it. With six stories that interrupt each other and nest inside one another like a set of Russian dolls, the novel draws spiritual and moral connections among a very wide range of characters, all of whom are fascinating to get to know in their own right, on the page, before you see them interpreted by any actor. And though the movie adaptation seems to have the budget to recreate some fantastical worlds, like a rigid Korean futuristic society or the savage, wild South Pacific of the mid-1800s, the one you imagine for yourself will still probably be more impressive than any CGI recreation.
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