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The Tree of Life
Bethie:
my son's name is gong to be terrence malick, eff the fathers say
flagpolespecial:
er, bethie... will you marry me?!?
modage:
SPOILERS!
"We're just starting work on a project for Terrence Malick, animating dinosaurs, the film is The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. It'll be showing in IMAX -- so the dinosaurs will actually be life size -- and the shots of the creatures will be long and lingering." -- from an Empire magazine interview with VFX artist Mike Fink that some sources claim to have read but which can't be located by the mag's search engine.
I over-wrote a very long piece about Malick in '91 that was called Malick Aforethought. I described an ambitious film that Malick wanted to film in the wake of the 1978 release of Days of Heaven, called Q. (A title later appropriated by Larry Cohen when he made Q, The Winged Serpent .) There was a passage about a dinosaur sleeping and dreaming in a sea of magma -- I remember that much. The story spanned millenia. We all know there's a present day portion in which Pitt (I think) plays Penn's dad in flashbacks. I realize this sounds a little vague.
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/03/pitt_penn_dinos.php
JG:
whoa.
SiliasRuby:
Whoa is right. After reading that, this trumps my anticipation for everything else coming out this year. Just, wow, man. Wow.
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