The Wachowski siblings love to keep their world shrouded in secrecy, so when some verified news about what they’re up to emerges, it almost comes as a surprise. Indeed they’re so secretive that you feel in an ideal world they wouldn’t want anyone to know what any of their films were about until you actually watched them.
While there have been nuggets and rumours about their ‘hard-R’ gay Iraq war/sci-fi movie, Cobalt Neural 9 (or CN-9), and undertainty over whether they would direct or just produce an adaptation of Cloud Atlas, THR reports that they’ve now signed a deal with Warner to write and direct a movie called Hood.
It’s descibed as ‘a modern, urban take on the Robin Hood myth’, which may not be much to go on, but is a hell of a lot more than we normally know about a Wachowski project this early on. And as it’s from the makers of The Matrix, expect plenty of whizz-bang comic-book infused special effects.
What’s entirely uncertain is what this means for Cloud Atlas and CN-9. The latter was what the siblings wanted to make next, but due to its controversial subject matter and unusual structure (it’ll take the form of archeologists from the future piecing together the events of the Iraq War, as well as telling the story of a soldier and an Iraqi man falling in love, and a plot to assasinate George Bush) it’s had difficulty finding funding. With Cloud Atlas it was assumed that Tom Twyker would direct, but recent rumours have suggested the Wachowskis could be taking over.
Whether Hood will now take precedence or if it’s just being slotted into development, isn’t certain. As always with the siblings, we’ll have to wait and maybe find out one day!