Empire have been talking to Brad Pitt regarding the forthcoming Terrence Malick (who last directed New World) Flick, Tree of Life. Which according to Brad is an ambitious film, but not a great deal else is known! For all I know it could be about building ashtrays from ice cubes. Anyway, this is what Pitt had to say to Empire.
"Well, in a way. It's this little tiny story of a kid growing up in the 50s with a mother who's grace incarnate and a father who's oppressive in nature. So he is negotiating his way through it, defining who he's gonna be when he grows up. And that is juxtaposed with a little, tiny micro-story of the cosmos, from the beginning of the cosmos to the death of the cosmos. So that's where the sci-fi – or the sci-fact – comes in."
Pitt also confirmed that Heath Ledger was originally set for a role in the film. "He was gonna do it at one point, and then he was puling out for one reason or another, and we were involved ["we" meaning Pitt's production company Plan B], so I just stepped in."
