This article by Rayk Schroeder originally appeared in DP 02 : 2013. Please also note our interview on Cloud Atlas by Mirja Fürst from the same issue. with production costs of around 100 million dollars, "Cloud Atlas" by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings is currently one of the most expensive independent films produced. The elaborate visual effects of the almost three-hour work, in which six different time periods had to be realised, are impressively successful. Rise | Visual Effects Studios worked on over 100 shots for the film, transforming today's Glasgow into the San Francisco of the 1970s, among other things. David Mitchell wrote the novel "Cloud Atlas" in 2004. It tells six interconnected stories over a period of 500 years, starting on a sailing ship in 1849 and moving on to Cambridge in the 1930s. It continues in San Francisco in 1973, London in 2012, Neo-Seoul in 2144 and ends in a post-apocalyptic world in 2346. The book was considered unfilmable due to its intricately int...
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