Although Cloud Atlas didn’t break the bank, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, who backed The Matrix and Speed Race,r have been happy to get back in business with Andy and Lana Wachowski for Jupiter Ascending.

It’s now been announced that the film has started shooting (in fact things started rolling on April 2nd), and with it comes a slightly more in-depth synopsis, letting us now what we can expect from the film.

Here it is, ‘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.

‘Channing Tatum (“Magic Mike”) and Mila Kunis (“Oz the Great and Powerful”) lead an international cast that also includes Sean Bean (“The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy), Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”), Douglas Booth (“LOL”), Tuppence Middleton (TV’s “The Lady Vanishes”), Doona Bae (“Cloud Atlas”), James D’Arcy (“Hitchcock”) and Tim Pigott-Smith (“Alice in Wonderland”).’

The film will shoot at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK until June, at which time filming will move to Chicago for completion. It’ll hit cinemas in 2014.

Douglas Booth

Douglas Booth may look more like a fashion designer has carved him for the catwalk than a real person, but he’s certainly handsome and is building a respectable acting careers that’s seen him appear in Christopher And His Kind, LOL and as Pip in the BBC’s Great Expectations.

He’s got even bigger projects coming up with Romeo & Juliet, Noah and now Variety reports that he’s joined the cast of the Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending.

The likes of Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, and Sean Bean are already onboard the sci-fi flick, which is set in a future where one supreme leader rules the universe and humans are considered the lowest form of life. Tatum will play a bounty hunter who is ordered to kill an Earth woman (Mila Kunis) who is the spitting image of the Queen of the Universe. However rather than completing his task, he starts to fall for her.

There’s no news on exactly who Booth will play, although I’d be willing to bet he’s on the side of the rulers rather than the subjugated humans.

It’s believed Andy and Lana Wachowski hope to shoot the movie in the next few months.

Although Cloud Atlas didn’t do as well as Lana and Andy Wachowski probably hoped, they’re planning a slightly more mainstream sci-fi adventure for their next outing – Jupiter Ascending. Now a new cast member has signed up, with Deadline reporting that Sean Bean has joined the already cast Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, and Eddie Redmayne.

The story is set in a universe where humans are at the bottom of the evolutionary food chain, and one supreme leader rules all. The plot follows a young Earth woman (Mila Kunis) who is targeted for assassination by the Queen of the Universe, because she bears a striking similarity to the ruler. Channing Tatum plays the bounty hunter who is sent to kill the woman, but ends up falling for her in the process (so it’s all a bit Snow White). Sean Bean is portraying Stringer, who’s described as a ‘Han Solo-type character’.

Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski are directing from their own original screenplay. The last we heard an early 2013 production start was being eyed, although an exact start date isn’t known.

Cloud Atlas is certainly one of the most interesting movies coming in the next few months, and with good (if not ecstatic) buzz coming from festival screenings, it should be certainly worth a look. Now seven character banners have been released, which are certainly very eye-catching.

The movie, based on David Mitchell’s novel spans hundreds of years, showing how individual lives affect others in the past, present, and future through a series of stories. The actors, including Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Tom Hanks play different people in each story, jumping between different races and genders. It’s currently set for UK release of February 22nd, 2013.