‘Jupiter Ascending’, The New Film From The Wachowskis, Looks Almost As Nuts As ‘Cloud Atlas’
The duo are back with another massive sci-fi epic, starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum.
Despite its sore-throated supporters and their yell-y defenses, it’s probably for the best that Lana and Andy Wachowski haven’t wasted much time in moving on from the box office failure and mixed critical response to their 3-hour, multi-generational, multi-character adaptation of Cloud Atlas, and its many faces of Tom Hanks.
Earlier today, Warner Bros released the first official trailer for the duo’s new film, Jupiter Ascending. Described as a sci-fi adventure set in a universe where “humans are at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder” (even worse than Plutonians? Come on…), the film stars Mila Kunis as the titular hero Jupiter Jones, a destitute young toilet cleaner who’s targeted for assassination by cosmic royalty because she holds some universe-dominating super gene (or something; I’ve never been good at explaining fantasy plotlines).
Thankfully, beard-y Channing Tatum is there to protect her as Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military dude who helps lead Jupiter to a street hip-hop dancing championship (no, of course not).
The film is due out locally on August 24, 2014, so there’s plenty of time to have nightmares over that hoppy mutant thing at 1:02.