Stone the Crows...Hugh Grant has a movie!

I know that this piece of news was reported on the 13th September by Empire Magazine but I am still very much surprised that Hugh Grant after what seems like having years of panned movies such as:

• American Dreamz
• Have You Heard About The Morgans?

But Hugh has managed to score himself an actual role in an independently financed movie that is based on David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. And suprisingly there will be other big names in this such as:

• Halle Berry
• Tom Hanks
• Jim Broadbent
• Hugo Weaving
• Jim Sturgess
• Ben Whishaw
• Keith David
• David Gyas
• Susan Sarandon
• Zhou Xun
• Doona Bae

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is a complicated novel that has an interlinking narrative that focuses on one soul through several centuries starting from 19th Century boat journeys to a post apocolypic future across the Pacific and in Hawaii.

The Wakowski brothers along with Tom Tykwer are said by Empire to be attached to this project as directors but also they have been reported as the ones that wrote the adaption of this novel.

Glasgow will be one of the locations for this film and at the end of this week (the 16th in case you are wondering). A final release date hasn't been pencilled in but it is proposed to come to cinemas in late 2012.

This role will also be another period film so this should be relatively safe ground for Hugh as 'Sense and Sensibility' was better than his performances in the above so called movies.