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‘The Tree Of Life’ Inches Closer To A 2009 Release? Maybe?

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.

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  1. Ditto that for 09'.

    I've devised this scenario. Bill Pohlad is the producer behind TofL. He also became the co-owner with Bob Berney's on a new distrib label. Unless they pick up films between now and TIFF, they'll only have Bright Star to show for in 09'. Summit is selling world rights and are clear that they don't have domestic for themselves. Seeing that no one is picking up big titles since last year's Cannes, we could very well see the Berney co. rep the film. Since they pre-sold the film in multiple territories there may be some additional pressure to put it out sooner than later.

    At this stage I'm wondering: how much CGI is involved in the treatment of the history of the world, planetary system, dinosaurs epilogue and prologue bits.

  2. How were all of those actors, plus the ones that weren't cut, in The Thin Red Line? How do you manage to put everyone together like that?
    Filming for a year?

    Wasn't budget was something like $50-60 million, so do these actor's line up for volunteer roles in war movies. It would be interesting though to see a single movie get all of the nominations for best supporting actor.

    I hope Tree of Life comes out soon.

  3. The long cut of the thin red line would be very interesting to see. Apparently there is a lot more material shot, going in quite a different direction to the final cut. In saying that, it would probably be a disapointment, wouldn't be able to live up to very high expectations.

    Very keen to see Tree of Life.

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