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Ledger & Penn are sitting in a ‘Tree’

Published on October 30, 2007

What a great month its been for Malick fans – first the Criterion Co. release of the Malick-approved Days of Heaven and now a bit of casting announcements on a project that has been in gestation for a very long time – almost three decades!

Until recently was supposed to be shot in India with some production from there and with a possible Mel Gibson and Collin Farrell sighting, but The Hollywood Reporter reports that Heath Ledger and Sean Penn are in talks to star in Tree of Life – a complex drama sees Ledger in the lead opposite an a female character with Sean Penn in a supporting role. Penn stared in Malick's The Thin Red Line and helped the filmmaker edit the film.

Malick can be thankful to River Road Entertainment's Bill Pohlad and Sarah Green who'll back this project. Shooting begins in the month of March.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).