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Cloud Atlas is a 2012 epic science fiction film written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. [8] Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell , it has multiple plots occurring during six eras and features an ensemble cast who perform multiple roles across these time periods.
Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction , historical fiction , contemporary fiction and science fiction , with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
The 2004 novel Cloud Atlas (and its 2012 film adaptation) has a section in which a female journalist is nearly murdered via car accident to prevent her from publishing a report on a conspiracy to cause a nuclear power plant catastrophe. Silkwood's death is mentioned in the Netflix TV documentary mini series Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022).
David Kwaku Asamoah Gyasi (/ ˈ dʒ æ s i /; [1] born 2 January 1980) is a British actor. His films include Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014). On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC series White Heat (2012) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018), the CW miniseries Containment (2016), the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019–2023), and the Netflix political thriller The ...
In 2012, his metafictional novel Cloud Atlas (again, with multiple narrators), was adapted as a feature film of the same name. One segment of number9dream was adapted as a short film titled The Voorman Problem and starring Martin Freeman. It was nominated for a BAFTA in 2013. [6] In addition to novels, Mitchell has written opera libretti in ...
The Voorman Problem – a short film produced in 2013, based upon a section of this novel; The Bone Clocks – Mitchell's 2014 novel, in which the character of Crispin Hershey is revealed to be the author of The Voorman Problem; Ghostwritten – Mitchell's first novel, published in 1999, in which Mr. Suhbataar also plays a role.
Heartless, [4] a film directed by Philip Ridley, premiered on 31 August 2009 [9] at the London FrightFest Film Festival, a popular horror film festival. Sturgess appears as Jamie Morgan, a young man whose life has always been blighted by the large, heart-shaped port wine birthmark on his face and sells his soul to the devil.
His fiction includes The Cloud Atlas (Delacorte, 2004), All Saints (Delacorte, 2007), the short story collection Listen (Four Way Books, 2015), and the novel Paris by the Book (Dutton, 2018), [3] as well as short stories in a number of little magazines and literary journals (print and online) including The Awl, Blackbird, Caketrain, Crab Orchard Review, failbetter, Phoebe, Southern Indiana ...