The filmmaker notorious for his meticulous and slow-moving filmography now has four movies in the making, with two recently announced titles both starring Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. Tree of Life director Terrence Malick is currently working on IMAX documentary Voyage of Time — which will undoubtedly be some major cosmic eye candy — and a project called The Burial (for now, anyway) with Javier Bardem amongst other topliners. Now, the Thin Red Line director is setting his sights on Lawless and Knight of Cups, both featuring a stellar cast.
Lawless will star Bale and Blanchett, along with Ryan Gosling, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Rooney Mara, and newbie Haley Bennett (Marley & Me). Knight of Cups has Bale and Blanchett, plus Isabel Lucas from Tarsem Singh’s upcoming Immortals. No plot details have been released, but both projects will shoot back-to-back in 2012. Pretty amazing for a man who only made four films in 32 years before Tree of Life arrived in theaters, as EW points out. Malick fans: mind blown?
[Editor's note: Welcome to the second installment of our new Friday feature The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. There will be some good outfits; there will be some bad outfits; there will be some fugly outfits -- actually, we've got our fingers-crossed that there will be lots and lots of latter. We hope you enjoy it!]
1. This sounds promising: Fox Searchlight has greenlit the first film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris since their 2006 Oscar-winner Little Miss Sunshine. He Loves Me, which will reunite the filmmaking team with Paul Dano, also stars his girlfriend, Zoe Kazan, who wrote the script. [via Deadline]
2. Battlestar Galactica star Edward James Olmos is joining the cast of season six of Dexter; he’ll be playing “an enlightened religious studies professor” who we’re guessing has something to do with Mos Def’s storyline on the show. [via Screen Rant]
3. Strange but possibly true: Is Lady Gaga planning to spend her summer in a new home on Martha’s Vineyard that she has dubbed “GG’s Playpen”? [via Boston Herald]
4. The Barbican has announced the flagship arts programming planned around the 2012 London Olympics, and the highlights include theater productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, a major Bauhaus retrospective, and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach. [via Arts Journal]
5. The Kardashians are working on a novel that’s due out next November about “a glamorous, high profile and complicated family,” and they want your suggestions on what it should be called — but you won’t be paid if they pick your title. [via WaPo]
Australian pop siren Lenka takes a 360-degree approach to her music, cultivating a fantastically quirky visual aesthetic to match the lighthearted lilt of her sunny compositions. A former actress and art student who trained with Cate Blanchett and majored in sculpture, Lenka builds her own stage sets, designs her own outfits, creates stop-motion videos, and choreographs her own dance routines.
In our exclusive interactive interview, she talks about the making of her new album, why she wants to work with David Bowie, and recording the sound of her own heart — the perfect Valentine’s Day gift to her fans. Choose the questions yourself, and watch Lenka instantly respond.
We’re a little bit sensitive about our beloved music icons. So when it comes time to make a biopic and Hollywood studios cast A-list actors to fill their glittery shoes, we’re likely to get defensive about their choices. For instance, a recently announced film about Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia has us hoping for lots of tie-dye, illicit substances, and trippy cinematography — but we won’t allow ourselves to get excited about it until we know who’s playing the hippie hero himself. Our trepidation about the Garcia film got us thinking about notable musician biopic casting decisions of the past. Check out the five best and worst after the jump.
1. Over the weekend a crew member left the shooting script for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows on the floor of a pub in England. The fan who found it sold it to a British tabloid who then returned it to Warner Bros. [via Gawker]
2. Meet the 18-year-old Detroit student who gave the Coke bottle a green redesign. [via Slashfood]
3. Steven Soderbergh has shot a new film that’s based on his experiences working with Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton at the Sydney Theatre Company. [via Yahoo!]
4. Watch a teaser trailer for Showtime‘s new reality series, The Real L Word. [via AfterEllen]
5. The observation deck of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — the world’s tallest skyscraper — reopened yesterday, two months after an elevator malfunction forced it to close. [via Guardian]
Simply put, Ridley Scott‘s new version of Robin Hood is meant for the Braveheart crowd. If you were a fan of Kevin Reynold’s glossy take on the popular English myth back in the ’90s, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, then this decidedly R-rated update might not be your thing. If you loved Gladiator and Black Hawk Down’s quick-cut violence and hyper-realism, it should be right up your alley.
Check out the heavy metal soundtracked trailer and some stills after the jump, and let us know what you think.
It was reported yesterday that Academy Award-Winner Nicole Kidman will be joined by Academy Award-Stealer-From-Cate-Blanchett Gwyneth Paltrow in The Danish Girl, a new movie about the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, directed by the man who brought us our favorite kiddie-vampire movie not starring Robert Pattinson, Let The Right One In.
We know you love us, but it’s impossible that you’ve read everything that we’ve posted this week — unless you’ve got a really boring temp job, subscribe to our RSS feed, or have internet access in a low-security prison. To that end, here are links to ten of our most popular stories of the past week. Enjoy these links, and have a happy holiday weekend!
1. Arts Beat reports that Cate Blanchett — currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire for the the Sydney Theater Company — continued to act in a scene after a prop radio fell on her head during a a fight scene with Joel Edgerton, who is playing Stanley Kowalski. Blood poured down her head and neck, the house lights went up, and the audience was asked to leave. She is expected back for tonight’s performance.
