Netflix has added another promising sounding project to their original programming slate. This one comes from The Wachowskis (Cloud Atlas, The Matrix), and has been given a 10-episode order at the streaming video subscription service.

Deadline describes Sense 8 as "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted." The idea was reportedly inspired by a conversation they had late at night about "the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us."

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Sense 8 will focus on eight people scattered around the globe who are connected by a shared violent vision. Each episode will follow the characters’ separate stories, with one entity attempting to unite them while another tries to kill them.

Here’s a look at the cast of characters: “a closeted Mexican telenovela hunk, an Icelandic party girl, a German safe-cracker, a Korean businesswoman, an African bus driver and a transgender American blogger. Perhaps most intriguing, though, are Jonas, an apparently magic African-American who appears to all of the “visionaries,” and his evil counterpart, Mr. Whispers.”

Sense 8 will start production this June, so expect some casting announcements over the coming months.

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