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Natalie Portman joins two Terrence Malick films



Nope, still no plot details or anything really about Terrence Malick's upcoming back-to-back films "Lawless" and "Knight Of Cups," but as if we couldn't be any more stoked about what the elusive filmmaker will bring to us next, here comes this little bombshell. Natalie Portman will be joining both films. Damn.

Just to recap: "Lawless" will star Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett, and it already created waves last fall when pre-production work was underway at the Austin City Limits music festival. What's it about? Who knows. But that is one helluva cast, but no shocker really, considering Malick is the kind of guy actors line up to work with (unless they are Christopher Plummer or Adrien Brody). Meanwhile, "Knight Of Cups" also stars Bale and Blanchett along with Isabel Lucas, and again, no details on what it might be about.

"Knight Of Cups" will shoot first this summer, with "Lawless" following in the fall. Will they be connected? When the films were first announced they were said to be "separate narratives," but the Bale/Blanchett/Portman crossover casting is interesting, so we'll have to see how it all develops.

Meanwhile, Malick is currently sitting on another presumably completed film, the untitled romance starring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem and Olga Kurylenko. Still no word on when that will see release, but clearly Terry is moving faster now than he ever has in his career. As for Portman, this is one helluva of a way to return after her post-baby hiatus.

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loganx2 8th-Feb-2012 05:58 pm (UTC)
The fact that Malick is doing back to back films is pretty great. The fact that Portman will be in both of them means nothing to me.

But yay for Gosling and Bale.
beatlesluv 8th-Feb-2012 06:12 pm (UTC)
I feel exactly the same way
rumblerawr 8th-Feb-2012 05:58 pm (UTC)
Unless he cuts her out of most of the finished movie
haha1205 8th-Feb-2012 06:01 pm (UTC)
i hope he does ugh
beatlesluv 8th-Feb-2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
and she doesn't find out till she goes to the premiere and the interviewers ask her about how she felt to be in such a small role...ala adrien brody
kwikimart 8th-Feb-2012 06:26 pm (UTC)
yessssss!

this would be so sweeeet
lilienveigh 8th-Feb-2012 06:17 pm (UTC)
i hope he does
roguewave3 8th-Feb-2012 06:19 pm (UTC)
mte
sofiascarlett 8th-Feb-2012 06:20 pm (UTC)
wishing and hoping tbh
infinite_drag 8th-Feb-2012 09:18 pm (UTC)
I wouldn't be opposed to that, lol...


just as long as he doesn't cut the Señor out of any of the films...
lovejoydiver 8th-Feb-2012 10:08 pm (UTC)
i really hope so <333333333
grotesque_xxx 8th-Feb-2012 05:59 pm (UTC)
great ;]
house_tanner 8th-Feb-2012 05:59 pm (UTC)
Nobody shoots a setting sun through trees like Terrence Malick.
malorn 8th-Feb-2012 06:41 pm (UTC)




house_tanner 8th-Feb-2012 06:43 pm (UTC)
I'm a sucker for natural light. So gorgeous. Days of Heaven is the best looking film of all time imo.
actxappalledx 8th-Feb-2012 06:01 pm (UTC)
Release the Ben Affleck film, pls & thank you
iamalreadyinuse 8th-Feb-2012 06:02 pm (UTC)
the only Terrence Malick film that I'm interested in is the one that includes this:

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I need Lawless in my life like now.
ratchetry 8th-Feb-2012 06:04 pm (UTC)
wtf is this
iamalreadyinuse 8th-Feb-2012 06:05 pm (UTC)
it's Lawless, starring the beautiful queen in your icon. :)
xo_prettywords 8th-Feb-2012 06:07 pm (UTC)
where is this from?
vulturesmemento 8th-Feb-2012 08:24 pm (UTC)
Can we skip to 2013? They look so natural.
beatlesluv 8th-Feb-2012 06:14 pm (UTC)
im ashamed to say i didnt even know oprah was doing an after oscar special...do you have links?
lcacbc 8th-Feb-2012 06:03 pm (UTC)
I'm so jelly of her beauty. That's all I have to add tbh.
onyxobsidian 8th-Feb-2012 06:15 pm (UTC)
cluelessraf 8th-Feb-2012 06:04 pm (UTC)
Do you guys ever feel like sometimes you know too much about the production of a movie than your friends do? Like for example, I avoid Malick films like the plague, but most of my friends wouldn't even know who he was.
zharia 8th-Feb-2012 06:12 pm (UTC)
I know more about pop culture than everyone I know combined.

Sometimes its gross.

Especially when I can spout off about the love lives of actors and reference shit like "chicken nuggets is like my family."
teamdowney 8th-Feb-2012 06:59 pm (UTC)
LMAO Same.
iamalreadyinuse 8th-Feb-2012 06:15 pm (UTC)
i went out to dinner with friends last night and we talked about the oscars and I was actually embarassed with myself with how much I knew compared to how little they knew. But I just look at it like some people know everything about sports, I just happen to know everything about TV/movies.
onyxobsidian 8th-Feb-2012 06:16 pm (UTC)
Yes. And when I hear people spouting shit off about any little aspect of a movie they might have heard about and they are SO COMPLETELY WRONG, it drives me crazy but it would take a long time for me to explain how wrong they are.
ratchetry 8th-Feb-2012 06:23 pm (UTC)
I try not to talk about pop culture too much because it's embarrassing how much i know
crash31 8th-Feb-2012 06:30 pm (UTC)
I find myself biting my tongue A LOT when people around me bring up pop culture/celebrity/entertainment stuff bc I can feel the useless knowledge I have about it just bubbling up inside me that I don't share that I know bc it would just make me look like a crazy person lmao
room_102 8th-Feb-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)
Thankfully my former roommate and I found each other and share our unhealthy habits together.
st00pidness 8th-Feb-2012 06:39 pm (UTC)
ngl i dumb down my pop culture knowledge in front of my friends to save myself embarrassment. they always ask how do you know that?!?! or if a model is on a commercial or something they'll say how did you know who that was?!
enema_recipe 8th-Feb-2012 07:32 pm (UTC)
Most of my friends are as into pop culture as I am (my best friend even TEACHES pop culture classes at a university) but when I say things like "throw shade" or "I wanna see the receipts" IRL people give me weird looks and ask me what it means and I feel like a total nerdlinger.
bulimia 8th-Feb-2012 06:05 pm (UTC)
sean penn/adrien brody treatment pls imo
sofiascarlett 8th-Feb-2012 06:08 pm (UTC)
mte
lilienveigh 8th-Feb-2012 06:17 pm (UTC)
lol mfte
cassie_epstein 8th-Feb-2012 06:07 pm (UTC)
Gosling and Blanchett in the same movie? Count me in.
xo_prettywords 8th-Feb-2012 06:07 pm (UTC)
I'm pretty excited for all these Malick films.
icangoforthat 8th-Feb-2012 06:12 pm (UTC)
i though she quit acting? or was that someone else?
onyxobsidian 8th-Feb-2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
Yay! I am going through such Natalie withdrawls that I am going to shell out $16 to go see Star Wars in 3D
pretty_fits 9th-Feb-2012 12:02 pm (UTC)
lol ngl I'll probs do that as well.
roguewave3 8th-Feb-2012 06:17 pm (UTC)
Ugh, I just hope she's barely in them. I'm still excited for the films though.

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