Hugh Elevation

That Cloud Atlas is sure a star-studded affair.

Hugh Grant has joined the award-winning likes of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Jim Broadbent in the adaptation of the David Mitchell novel the Wachowski sibling are working on with Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run).

The project is Grant’s first since 2009’s Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which not a lot of people...uh...did.

Admittedly, it’s not like the guy has been slacking off somewhere: He has been rather busy helping to bring down the News of the World, after all.

Production on Cloud Atlas began this week in Europe.

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