And after what seems like an eternity of waiting we have finally seen the first footage from his latest project, Knight of Cups. Starring Christian Bale and a host of other big names, it looks like Malick poured The Wolf of Wall Street and Maps to the Stars in a blender and added a huge dash of his own famous imagery sauce.
It’s a relatively trippy trailer, with plenty of wild moments, stark images and bizarre camera angles that have a serious ‘family video’ vibe about them. It seems to focus on the strange struggles of Bale’s character as his life becomes incredibly excessive, possibly affecting his love life in the process.
I’m sure this is one of those movies that the critics will lap up, but the public will be reluctant to see.
Knight of Cups is out sometime in 2015.