The film will span the birth of the universe to its final days. If it’s anything like Malick’s past films, we can expect to see minute aspects of life manipulated into highly symbolic imagery. The Tree of Life, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 2012, has a fairly lengthy sequence to itself which recounts the beginning of the universe until the time of man. It will be interesting to see what Malick does with an even broader palette.
Following his Oscar-nominated The Thin Red Line (1998), Malick disappeared (this following a much lengthier departure between1978’s Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line), but has made quite the comeback, with The New World (2005), The Tree of Life (2011), To the Wonder (2012), and a film starring Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Cate Blanchett currently in post-production, Knight of Cups (2014).
The star of The Tree of Life, Brad Pitt, will be one of the producers of the documentary, and may act as the film’s narrator.
According to Variety, Vincent Maravel, co-founder of Wild Bunch (who is representing the film) described it as “a project we have been tracking for years and we are passionate about. This is a classic for the future generations, Malick’s legacy to humanity.”
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