Watch: 24 New Photos from CLOUD ATLAS

As in the David Mitchell's novel, all the actors in Cloud Atlas play different characters in different time frames of the story before your very eyes. Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings' big screen adaptation have Hugh Grant playing a businessman and a tribal leader while Hugo Weaving plays an Asian man, e.g. Discovered over at CloudAtlas.WarnerBros.com, the film's website shows a timeline that moves from left to right, and shows the progression of characters through time. Cloud Atlas will be in theaters on October 26th, 2012 and stars Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess. You can also check out twenty four character photos that detail character transformations below: Ben Whinsaw in Cloud Atlas – 1930s

David Gyasi in Cloud Atlas – 19th Century Slavery

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James DArcy in Cloud Atlas – 1930s

James DArcy in Cloud Atlas – 1970s

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