A few rumors have been making the rounds of late regarding Terrence Malick’s long-gestating “The Tree of Life” starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
One, the film will come out in November and two, the film, might not be ready for Cannes 2010 and might instead hit the fall film festival.
Well, apparently those rumors are on the money or at least half right. Anne Thompson spoke to Apparition’s Bob Bearney today, and confirms that indeed, the picture will hit the U.S. in November and, “that doesn’t mean it won’t be ready for Cannes,” Bearney says as has been speculated by many.
Are we reading into that comment too much? To us and what we’ve heard and been told, as of right now, it seems up in the air whether ‘Tree of Life’ will be ready in the sense that nothing, not even Cannes, can rush Terrence Malick. It probably won’t become clearer until closer to the festival itself and surely, they’d leave a last minute spot available for Malick should a last minute delivery be the case.
Meanwhile, another recent rumor is that the film will have a release date of May 12 in France, but if it’s officially coming out in the U.S. in November as confirmed by the guy who runs the distribution company, we highly, highly doubt they’d release it in other parts of the world that far in advance. In fact, we’d bet all the money in the world against it.
Lastly, Christian Bale (who had a role in Malick’s 2005 film, “The New World”), Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams, and Olga Kurylenko are all on board for an untitled romantic drama that Malick will evidently begin filming this fall. If that actually happens (and don’t necessarily bet on it) it would probably be the fastest back-to-back projects Malick has ever done. God, we hope it does happen, that cast under Malick sounds tremendous.
