July 27, 2012 
Nearly six-minutes of Lana and Andy Wachowski‘s epic collaboration with Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas, has been revealed online, inspiring awe and confusion amongst all who have not read David Mitchell’s sprawling novel of the same name.
The picture stars Tom Hanks,Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, and many others; each playing multiple characters across several stories that span a thousand years.
We won’t even attempt to summarise the plot, or explain what goes on in this grand teaser. We’ll just let you soak it in.
Cloud Atlas makes its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September before opening wide in the United States on October 26th, 2012. An Australian release will hopefully follow.
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Can it live up to the intricate complexity of the book and wrap it up in two hours?