Based on the book by David Mitchell--the tome consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last one get interrupted at some point, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place.
Sturgess is expected to play several roles.
Tom Hanks Halle Berry Hugo Weaving (who will play six parts in the ambitious pic), Ben Whishaw, Susan Sarandon Doona Bae and Jim Broadbent also star.
The adaptation will be written and co-directed by The Wachowski's Lana and Andy and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run).
Sturgess told The Playlist:
"lt’s an amazing book… You really gotta stick with it…because when it all starts falling into place it’s pretty amazing. [All the actors] play a few characters, it’s very clever what [the directors are] gonna try and do. I’m really really really excited about it. I think it’s going to be bonkers, it’s either going to work or it’s not. I’m really excited to see if we can pull it off, because it’s ambitious what they want to do. And it’s nice, you feel like no one’s ever done that in a film before, it’s like rep theater on a sort of giant movie scale."
Grant Hill and Stefan Arndt are producing the film and shooting aims to begin in September in Berlin for a October 12 2012 bow
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