Brad Pitt Confirmed To Narrate Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage Of Time,’ More Details Revealed
The past couple of weeks have been like Christmas forTerrence Malickfans. A new film (The Tree of Life, opening limited tomorrow) and information about two more films: the IMAX documentaryVoyage of Timeand a new drama possibly to be calledThe Burial. We just got confirmation thatVoyage of Timewould still be happening, after most talk of the project seemed to dissipate in the past six months.
Now a new interview with producer Bill Pohlad (the day you see an interview with the reclusive Terrence Malick will probably be the day the Rapture actually happens) sheds a bit more light on both projects.
TheLA Timesspoke to the producer, and among other things he confirmed thatBrad Pittwill indeed narrateVoyage of Timeasrumoredtwo years ago. He explained that the film was back-burnered as they didn’t want to ‘cannibalize’The Tree of Life, but that, asmentioned yesterday, Terrence Malick still very much wants to do the film.
Additionally, the LAT got hold of documentation for the film that is illustrated with “images of jellyfish, crocodile embryo, nebular clouds, a slot canyon in Utah and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede” and which says the film will cover “the whole of time, from the birth of the universe to its final collapse.” As we’ve suspected since seeingThe Tree of Life, the film sounds like a great expansion of the ‘cosmic’ sequences in that movie. The document for the film also promises subject matter including “the first signs of life, bacteria, cellular pioneers, first love, consciousness, the ascent of humanity, life and death and the end of the universe.”
But first we’ll see the untitled drama referred to in some quarters asThe Burial, which starsJavier Bardem,Olga Kurylenko,Rachel McAdamsandBen Affleck. Additional shooting was just finished for that, and the LAT reports that it is said to be “even more experimental thanTree of Life.“Treeis pretty damn experimental — it may be the biggest-budget experimental film ever made — but that remark is nebulous enough that it could mean almost anything. Without knowing who said it and what they consider ‘experimental,’ it’s just a point of conjecture for the rest of us.
[The Tree of Lifeimage fromTwoWaysThroughLife]
