Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life Exists, People Have Seen It, It May Even Come Out This Fall

Producers have insisted that the film will hit theaters this year, and Malick has begun to work in earnest on his sixth film (which will apparently shoot in his boyhood hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma—a few years ago, Malick’s dear friend and collaborator Jack Fisk said that the now-56-year-old filmmaker “hasn’t yet made the projects most important to him,” but is he, now?). And somebody on the internet has seen a 3-hour rough cut of Tree of Life, and talked about in in some forum somewhere.

The poster hasn’t said how he saw it—a theater or screening room employee? affiliated with the distributor?—but claims that “Yes, it is finished,” although “there has already been talk in the news about Malick releasing it, then re-cutting it, then re-releasing it, etc.” Malick’s a private perfectionist, and he pulled The New World out of theaters to recut it, so it’s no surprise that he may still be pursuing his idea of the film. But it is, by some accounts, very close. (And probably very good.)

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