Two worlds, and one man. The (sort of) true story of Valentino Achak Deng speaks of his life growing up in the civil war squalor of Sudan. When his village is reduced to cinder, he marches to a refugee camp with the other orphaned boys of Marial Bai – but his hardships will continue even after he escapes to the United States.

Film School Rejects just had a chance to sit down with the German filmmaker for an interview, and we learned that Cloud Atlas isn’t the only project that Tykwer is currently developing, and it might not even be the next movie he directs.

It will be like Road to Perdition: The Satire, only not.