Terrance Malick's latest star-heavy opus, The Tree of Life, has been pushed back from a proposed UK and Irish release of May 4th after a dispute with the distributor reports The Guardian.
Zak Brilliant (great name, dude) of Icon said: "[We] will not now be releasing Tree of Life on 4 May. There is a legal issue ongoing for the film which we hoped to resolve but were unable to do so." Reports in the trade press indicate that the film's foreign sales agents, Summit Entertainment, have taken the matter to arbitration in Los Angeles. The film will still premiere at Cannes so we should hear some rumblings of its quality next week. I love the enigmatic release, but the flick has been finished for a while now - it's time to get it out there.
Summit, the studio behind have an official synopsis that says it is "the tale of a Texas boy's journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a 'lost soul in the modern world', and his quest to regain meaning in life". Sean Penn plays the grown up boy, while Brad Pitt is his father in earlier/flashback scenes.
