Terrence Malick Still Wants To Make IMAX Film ‘Voyage Of Time’
The past couple years have been slightly confusing with respect toTerrence Malick’s slate of new films. We knew he was makingThe Tree of Life, which opens limited this weekend after premiering last week at Cannes, where it won the Palme d’Or. For some time it also seemed like he had spun someTreeideas off into a separate IMAX film (possibly a documentary) calledVoyage of Time. But as the release ofThe Tree of Lifeapproached, all talk of and info onVoyage of Timeseemed to dry up. Had the movie been absorbed back intoTree, in the form of that film’s cosmic sequences?
Apparently not. ProducerBill Pohladspoke to press in Hollywood this evening for the local premiere ofThe Tree of Life, and he said that Terrence Malick still wants to make the IMAX film. ActressJessica Chastainwas also on hand, and she spoke a bit about working with the director, and the small part she shot for his other upcoming film,a modern dramathat has been tentatively calledThe Burial.
ComingSoonreports that Bill Pohlad said ofVoyage of Time,
Asked if anyTree of Lifecharacters would appear, or if the film would be an expansion ofTree’s cosmic sequence, he suggested we should expect more cosmic stuff, but that things could change as new footage is being shot.
In 2009 we’d heard thatThe Tree of LifestarBrad Pittmight narratethe IMAX film, but at this point there is no firm confirmation or denial, and Terrence Malick being the slow, intuitive and reclusive filmmaker that he is, I wouldn’t expect any confirmation for some time.
Jessica Chastain also addressed the work she did on the modern romantic drama that may be calledThe Burial(but probably won’t):
I feel weird saying I was in two [Malick] films… I can say I was on two sets. I’m in one film and I was on another set. I don’t know if I’m going to be in that film. It was a small [part]. I was only there for two days.
Despite the fact that this is the film we might next see from Malick, it remains just as mysterious asVoyage of Time. We know the cast includesBen Affleck,Rachel McAdams,Javier BardemandOlga Kurylenko, but that’s it. Still, given the fact that we often wait years between getting even small grains of info about Terrence Malick films, this counts as a bonanza.
