4/15/2013
First synopsis for The Wachowskis' 'Jupiter Ascending' as filming begins
What we know about The Wachowski Siblings' next big sci-fi film, Jupiter Ascending, has it sounding like a futuristic version of Snow White and the Huntsman. Probably not a bad idea to stick with something familiar if they're going to bounce back from the disastrous returns on Cloud Atlas, and having Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis in the two leads certainly doesn't hurt. But these are The Wachowskis, after all, and nothing is ever quite as simple as it appears to be.
Filming on Jupiter Ascending has begun, and now we're getting a fuller plot synopsis, along with the complete casting that includes Sean Bean (think he'll get killed in this too?), Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy, and Tim Pigott-Smith. Production will continue until June in the U.K., then to Chicago before hitting theaters on July 25th 2014. Check out the plot below....
From the streets of Chicago to far flung galaxies whirling through space, Jupiter Ascending was conceived and written by the Wachowskis, who are also directing. Award-winning producer Grant Hill, with whom the writer/directors have collaborated since “The Matrix” Trilogy, is producing the film together with the Wachowskis. Roberto Malerba and Bruce Berman are serving as executive producers.
Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along – her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.






