The Wachowskis moved to Berlin to join Tykwer, with the financing still in flux.
But the Wachowskis found themselves instantly, and profoundly, attracted to the idea of adapting the book for the screen.
The Wachowskis were shooting scenes set on the Prophetess, the schooner on which much of the nineteenth-century story takes place.
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The Wachowskis, in addition to deferring their directing fees, invested some of their own money in the project, betting their livelihood on its success.
But, as the helicopter was ascending, a mass of clouds moved in, and the Wachowskis and the camera crew found themselves lost in whiteness.
In March, the Wachowskis and Tykwer flew to Los Angeles to show a hundred-and-seventy-minute cut of the movie to Warner Bros. executives in Burbank.
The set was rudimentary: the control room of the satellite-communication center would be completed with computer-generated imagery, imagined by the Wachowskis down to the minutest detail.
Due in late 2014, it's being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer fame, as well as J.
Due in late 2014, it's being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas and Speed Race fame, as well as J.
All the while, the Wachowskis kept on writing: in the early nineties, Larry went to New York to knock on the doors of the comic-book publishers.
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Berry was suffering from a cold that day, in addition to her sore foot, so the Wachowskis were working on closeups of Hanks and Weaving and hoping that she would be well enough to shoot in the afternoon.
Since Costa Rica, the Wachowskis and Tykwer had viewed the dramatic trajectory of the script as an evolution from the sinister avarice of Dr. Goose to the essential decency of Zachry, with both characters embodying something of the Everyman.
Even their oft-maligned Speed Racer was breathtaking, doing exactly what it was supposed to do and doing it very well, while proving that even within the limitations of the adapted source material the Wachowskis could still deliver a visually revolutionary film and compelling characterization.
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While at least some of these thefts must surely exist in the novel, the Wachowskis became masters of genre pastiche at the outset of that 1999 mega-franchise, and their visual take on this material feels cobbled-together from the spare parts of better films, including their own.
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Yet the film is beset by incoherence and implausibilities that are perplexing, given the close relationship between the Wachowskis and the director, Mr. McTeigue -- this is not one of those familiar cases, it's safe to say, where the writers lost control of their material when it went into production.
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