Terrence Malick’s ‘The Way of the Wind’ Privately Screens in L.A.

Last year, there were hopeful reports that Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind” was nearing completion and was entering the sound mixing stage. You even had the main actor, Géza Röhrig, who plays Jesus in Malick’s biblical epic, saying that the film would premiere at Cannes 2025

However, here we are, yet another spring where we honestly have no idea what the status of Malick’s film actually is. A few weeks ago, I mentioned how although it wasn’t finished, Malick’s film had set up a private screening and was being shopped around to buyers.

On Saturday, Variety echoed my reporting; the film had “screened” in L.A. but was “still in post,” they wrote. I now have some additional info. The cut shown was without SFX shots, but in attendance were programmers for Cannes, Venice, and Toronto.

What this means is that all options are still on the table for this one — it might premiere 2 months, 5 months or 20 months from now. Nobody really knows. Malick has been editing the film, which was shot in 2019, for close to six years now. According to actor Mathieu Kassovitz,, Malick supposedly shot close to 3000 hours of footage for ‘Way of the Wind.’