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The 2000s are proving to be very productive for Terrence Malick, the director that in 30 years of activity has produced only 3 movies and that in recent years has turned in one of the busiest author out there.

After The New World, The Tree of Life and To the Wonder, Terrence Malick is now working on two projects. The first one is Knight of Cups and the second, more misterious, is Project V starring Ryan Gosling.


During "Le Giornate professionali del Cinema 2014" held in Sorrento (Italy) from 30 November to 6 Decemebr we saw some sequences of the film.

From the short footage, we can guess that Ryan Gosling will star, an aspiring rock star. Around him gravitate two characters, one played by Michael Fassbender, who seems to be a business partner of Gosling, someone with whom the character can realize his musical ambitions. On the other side there is the character of Rooney Mara, who in the first part of the footage is clearly Gosling's woman and then seems to weave a clandestine relationship with Fassbender.

Around this love triangle gravitate two other women, Natalie Portman, in a novel blonde who seems to get in the good graces of Fassbender, while Cate Blanchett weaves his way with that of the character of Gosling.

Project V seems to be, for the style, similar to Knight of Cups, but takes over the discourse on '"hardening" of the rhythms that the director seems to have put in place in the film starring Christian Bale. Malick is measured by the world of rock, and automatically the themes and rhythms change and adapt. However, what Malick does is never an adjustment subservient to history, but a slow transformation, gradual and apparently motivated by what appear an artistic reasons. The story seems to come back to become important, to the detriment of what had happened in a rather extreme in The Tree of Life.

In Project V, near Ryan Gosling, also Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and again Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman.

The impressions received from the movie are obviously partial, and expect them to confirm only movie viewing. When and how this will be possible is to see.

Buried in the thousands of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton’s emails released by hackers is a message from reclusive director Terrence Malick, asking for help in securing rights for a song in a movie he’s working on. But it’s not an email; it’s a scanned image of a typewritten letter signed by Malick. The director, his assistant said in the email to Lynton, “does not have an email account.” This isn’t surprising — Malick shuns the press and has given all of one interview since the 1970s.

The letter describes a scene where Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara sing “a few phrases” from “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” Malick said that he had no problem securing rights from “Dylan to Madonna to Arcade Fire” under the same terms, but that the Gerry Goffin–Carole King classic was not available under those terms and so risked being cut out of the movie entirely.

Malick is presumably talking about a scene from what The Hollywood Reporter called “Untitled Terrence Malick Project,” not Knight of Cups, the Malick film starring Christian Bale whose trailer was released this week.

The use of (relatively) contemporary pop and rock music is a departure for Malick, whose more recent films have used a wide range of classical music from composers like Bach, Wagner, and Mozart.

Here’s the full letter. The scene, however, will likely not show up in the film when it’s released. Lynton forwarded Malick’s request to a Sony Music executive, calling Malick “an icon in the film business.” The Sony Music executive indicated that she probably wouldn’t be able to help.

Broad Green Pictures have nabbed the U.S. rights to "Knight Of Cups," and the followup, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, and more. Of course, there are still no plot details for the latter picture, or any idea of when it might premiere, but we have our fingers and toes crossed for Cannes.

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Terrence Malick's Austin-set drama has been completed.