Happy birthday to Terrence Malick who turned 80 on Friday. I sure hope we get to see “The Way of the Wind” next year, and all signs are pointing towards that happening.
This past July I was told that a 2024 premiere was being eyed for the film. Two separate sources added that, although Malick was still editing his film, there was an end in sight. “The Way of the Wind” started shooting in the summer of 2019
Malick’s post production process tends to be very slow, he takes his time in the editing room, refining and molding whatever footage he has into a tone poem that satisfies the inner artist in him.
Producer Alex Boden is on record as saying that Malick was “very happy” with a cut of the film. Also, Mark Rylance, who stars in ‘Way of the Wind,’ stated that he hoped Malick “eventually completes the film.”
Regardless, Malick is 80 years old today — given the amount of time he takes in between each of his films, I would think he doesn’t have that many left in him, but what an incredible filmography he’s given us since his 1973 debut, “Badlands.”
Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram to celebrate his friend’s birthday. In the process, he gave us this wonderful story about how Malick almost got cast in “Apocalypse Now.”
Coppola goes on to call Malick’s body of work “monumental,” and there really is no better work to describe this mythic filmmaker. What else would you call a filmography that includes “Badlands,” “Days of Heaven,” “The Thin Red Line,” “The New World” and “Tree of Life” as his first five films?
