Pitt and IMAX Dinosaurs?

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by: James Thoo Mar. 2, 2009

Terrence Malick's TREE OF LIFE is essentially the movie I'm most looking forward to this year, WATCHMEN included. So naturally, when I hear something about IMAX Dinosaurs being in the movie I'm interested. And as such I'm gonna relay the story here, even if I am a little half and half on the accuracy (more on that to follow):

"We're just starting work on a project for Terrence Malick, animating dinosaurs, the film is The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. It'll be showing in IMAX -- so the dinosaurs will actually be life size -- and the shots of the creatures will be long and lingering."

The quote allegedly comes from VFX artist Mike Fink, through Empire, but I can't seem to find it on their site. Elsewhere seems to remember a passage in Malick's ambitious script Q (which I believe evolved into TREE OF LIFE), where a dinosaur was sleeping and dreaming in a sea of magma, but I was sure it was a minotaur and not a dinosaur.

I guess time will tell. The movie follows the evolution of a young boy called Jack (the adult version of whom is played by Sean Penn) in the Midwest in the 1950s. Brad Pitt plays his father. For the whole synopsis click HERE.

Source: Elsewhere

Extra Tidbit: Brad Pitt replaced Heath Ledger on this project.

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afulinara
5:51AM on 03/03/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
i honestly think malick is one of the top five greatest filmmakers alive today (key word here is "alive" people, don't get pissy with me). i can't wait! sounds interesting, though malick has always seemed like a practical filmmaker to me. hearing about these visual effects being in a malick film is just strange. but im totally on board.
i honestly think malick is one of the top five greatest filmmakers alive today (key word here is "alive" people, don't get pissy with me). i can't wait! sounds interesting, though malick has always seemed like a practical filmmaker to me. hearing about these visual effects being in a malick film is just strange. but im totally on board.
 
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JamesT@Joblo
3:25PM on 03/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Shaggy89...
Just to clarify, brother... I believe that Brad Pitt will play Penn's father in FLASH BACKs, if you feel me.
Just to clarify, brother... I believe that Brad Pitt will play Penn's father in FLASH BACKs, if you feel me.
 
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Shaggy89
2:36PM on 03/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Pitt's playin Penn's father? sounds like that should be reversed
Pitt's playin Penn's father? sounds like that should be reversed
 
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fat-womanizer
1:12PM on 03/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
hopinng for the best
me neither. But Imax Dinosaurs defintely could get me going.
me neither. But Imax Dinosaurs defintely could get me going.
 
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Alcibiades
11:58AM on 03/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Never acquired the Malick taste
Hope that one will do the trick. Sounds intriguing.
Hope that one will do the trick. Sounds intriguing.