When C-VILLE last caught up with production designer Jack Fisk, he said that Terrence Malick was working on a film called Tree of Life that he’d been working on for 35 years—during most of which Malick stayed out of an adoring public’s view. Now it looks like Fisk, who lives locally with his wife Sissy Spacek, and Malick’s latest collaboration is about finished.
"Terry has been working on that film for 35 years that I know of," said Fisk earlier this year. (In that time, Malick made some of the best movies of the last 50 years, including Badlands and The Thin Red Line, both of which Fisk worked on.) One big challenge in making Tree of Life? "We moved a 60,000-pound tree down the main street of town to get to a house that we were shooting. And every wire, every Internet cable and every TV cable had to be cut to get the tree down the street."
"It took two days to move it five miles." Sounds like a labor of love. Judging by the stunning visuals—it’s like "Planet Earth" meets Badlands meets the Windows Media Player visualizer—the cinematography was too. Check out the trailer below. Tree of Life comes out this summer.
What do you think of the trailer?
