Production is underway on The Wachowskis’ next sci-fi film Jupiter Ascending, and the official synopsis for the film starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis has been revealed.

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.

So, it sounds like the film is almost like a sci-fi Cinderella story. It’s a pretty interesting concept and we’ll have to see how it plays out when the film hits theaters  July 25, 2014.

Source: ScreenRant

Check out yet another visually phenomenal trailer for Cloud Atlas from The Wachowski’s (The Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). This movie looks mind-blowingly fantastic and has put The Wachowski’s on the top of my list of directors for Warner Bros. upcoming Justice League film.

“Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.

Cloud Atlas is in theaters October 26th.