Andy and Lana Wachowski are preparing to blow our minds later this year with the much buzzed about Cloud Atlas, which I think you’d be crazy not to be excited about and it seems the siblings are preparing to finally work on more than one project every three or four years as the makers of The Matrix are also casting their next film, Jupiter Ascending.
Already cast in the film is Mila Kunis, and just yesterday Vulture ran a report with a rumored plot synopsis suggesting the film is targeted as the first entry in a trilogy about higher forms of life watching over Earth from other worlds.
The story allegedly centers on a recent Russian immigrant (Kunis) who is busily scrubbing toilets for a living. Unbeknownst to her, she actually possesses the same perfect genetic makeup as the Queen of the Universe and is therefore a threat to her otherwise immortal rule.
The plot continues as follows (which I am not going to read because I don’t want to spoil it for myself):
These evolved beings fall into various different groups, all of which share some human DNA but who have become evolved after being bred with animal DNA to heighten their best characteristics — e.g., soldiers getting their fearlessness, strength, and a pack mentality from wolves; workers getting their industriousness and reputation for diligence from bees.
Pretty soon, a bounty hunter of the evolved-being type is dispatched to dispose of the Cleaning Lady with the Great Pair of Nucloetides, but, as you’d expect with a Matrix re-dux, they fall in love… And for having fallen for his target, the bounty hunter — who we hear will be played by Channing Tatum — well, let’s just say that things get messy after that, because his employers take a-less-than-enlightened-being reaction to his decision to protect rather than kill her.
There was speculation as to the legitimacy of the report, but one bit has now proven true as Tatum tells MTV he has been cast in the film saying, “Yes, absolutely… It’s going to be a crazy action movie from the [directors] of The Matrix. They’re going to reinvent the wheel as far as action goes, all over again.”
Noted at the bottom of Vulture’s report is they’ve also heard Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be offered a role, but that is not yet confirmed.
