Tom Hanks' 'Cloud Atlas' Trailer Lands Online

The trailer, which lasts nearly six minutes, is the first detailed look at the adaptation of David Mitchell's best-selling novel which was co-directed by The Matrix siblings Lana and Andy Wachowski and Germany's Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). The film, which co-stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

The trailer gives a hint at how the directors have tied together the six disparate story threads in Mitchell's novel, which run from a South Pacific sea voyage during the 19th Century to America in the 1970s to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It also features the film's headline cast - including Hanks and Berry - in multiple roles. There is a brief glimpse of Berry as Meronym, a member of the last surviving remnants of a technically advanced civilization. The Oscar-winning actress also plays Luisa Ray, an investigative journalist looking into corruption at a nuclear power plant in 1970s California.

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