Blah, blah, blah, Chipotle Grill joins forces with Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media and River Road Entertainment to help promote the critically acclaimed documentary film “Food, Inc.”
OK, and? What does that have to do with Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life” is the film about spiritual burritos now or how the dinosaurs became extinct because their diet sucked?
Buried at the bottom of this press release is this minor tidbit, “River Road is currently in post-production on Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.”
Uhh, wishful thinking. They wouldn’t put that info in there if they weren’t close to finishing, right? RIGHT? [nervous giggle]. Reports have said the film was coming this year, but Malick is notorious for working at a snail’s pace.
Here’s your sorta-monkey wrench. IMDB (not a terribly infallible source, frankly) is now reporting that the film is scheduled for a 2010 release. Yes, that’s vague and unreliable. Also, apparently pix of Sean Penn with Terrence Malick leaked on the IMDB board, but the team on “Tree Of Life,” are evidently hyper quick and super sensitive and erased these images almost immediately.
C’mon, we need this film to save the mediocre year that is 2009. We wait, and wait and wait… While we’re at it, is this the right place to ask for a five-hour cut of “The Thin Red Line,” with all those excised actors? Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Jason Patric, Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke were apparently all cast in the film, but all of them were cut out of the final picture. Adrien Brody and John C. Reilly’s parts in the film amount to cameos, but apparently they had much bigger roles in other, much longer cuts of the film (Brody in fact was rumored to be “the lead” at one point), but has all of two lines and five minutes of screen time. Ok, yes. We want that, please. Oh and our early Christmas gift, how about “Tree of Life” in 2009 so it can capitalize on them 10 Oscar Best Picture nominations.