Pitt: From Malickesque Western to the Real Thing?
Apparently undaunted by the frosty critical and box office reception of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (the superb arthouse Western that bore more than a passing resemblance to a Terrence Malick film), Brad Pitt is currently in talks to star in Malick’s Tree of Life according to Variety.
I don’t want to make a habit of repeating casting rumors here, but A) this is Malick for crapsakes; B) this is one of the reasons we like Brad Pitt; and C) it’s one more excuse to scold the world for dropping the ball on Jesse James.
You can read all the rest of the pointless rumory details about Heath Ledger and also the now Pitt-less Kevin MacDonald film State of Play in the Variety blurb.
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Don’t forget, he’s in “Burn after reading” also. I’m expecting it to be the Coens back in comedy mode, but hey, Fargo was followed by the Big Lebowski, so I definitely want to see what No Country For Old Men will be followed by!
This will sound weird, but I’m afraid to be excited. Can it possibly get any better? It can’t, can it?
Better? Probably not. But a second Big Lebowski, a film I can watch over and over again discovering new jokes every time, with endless quotability? I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that.
I have to admit with Lebowski, I felt a little let down afterwards. Iiked it a lot, but didn’t learn to really love it until the 2nd or 3rd viewing. Part of it was the post-Fargo bulid up, but there are always huge expectations for me from the Coens.
I’ve read Burn After Reading, and it is another of those “we made a major movie and we don’t want to be held to making another one immediately” kind of movies.
On the page, Burn After Reading will be nowhere near a No Country, but it fits in the Coens filmography and I’m thinking it will be more satisfying than the sometimes underrated/sometimes overrated Big Lebowski.
I’m a little worried a prolonged strike could kill this project dead. I say this because filming on Mallick’s pic isn’t going to start until Spring and given Mallick’s history of long, long productions, the actors’ and directors’ guilds could easily be hitting the pickets lines while he’s still shooting. I’m just saying.
Still, nice to see Mallick is again behind the camera. I wait with undeterred anticipation for his next effort.
Ahhhhh…yes. The strike. We haven’t talked about that much. Now that the networks have basically given up on the TV season, there isn’t as compelling of a reason to settle the strike quickly so I have a feeling it’s going to drag on for awhile.