What seemed like every distributor&rsquo;s dream project with actors like Tom Hanks and Halle Berry in the lead, a film based on David Mitchell&rsquo;s novel Cloud Atlas had its share of woes. Turns out it was difficult for the directors of this independent film to find buyers as the complicated story created apprehensions. <img alt="Tom Hanks" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/sep/Tom-Hanks_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 432px; " /> Tom Hanks The filmmakers - Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer - who had earlier directed the Matrix Trilogy and Run Lola Run respectively were rather surprised by the discouraging outcome. Our source says, &ldquo;They had a tough time selling the film to the distributors before Warner Bros came on board. Apparently, the distributors doubted whether a film of such literary scale could indeed be made into a proper film and more importantly, if it&rsquo;ll sell.&rdquo; <img alt="Lana Wachowski" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/sep/Lana-Wachowski.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 471px; " /> Lana Wachowski As of now, the film is the costliest independent project ever made in Hollywood with an independently financed $100 million budget. Lana reveals, &ldquo;It took us about a year to write the script. I was extremely nervous to meet David Mitchell. But we all took a decision that if he didn&#39;t like it, we would kill the project.&rdquo;u00a0Fortunately, Mitchell loved it and gave the filmmakers his blessing. Lana adds, &ldquo;The experts all said that it was too complicated. They thought... three directors? That&#39;s never going to work!&quot; It&rsquo;s complicated! Cloud Atlas connects a 19th century notary who keeps a journal of his voyage across the Pacific Ocean, a musician in 1931 writing to a lover, a journalist investigating a murder at a nuclear plant in California, a publisher&rsquo;s pursuit of gangsters in present-day Britain, a robotic clone interviewed on the eve of her execution for rebelling against a totalitarian regime that created her in a dystopian future Korea, and a tribesman in a post-apocalyptic Hawaii who is visited by one of the last survivors of a dead civilization, to name a few. u00a0

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