Check Out The New Trailer for Terrence Malick’s KNIGHT OF CUPS

“Once there was a young prince whose father, the king of the East, sent him down into Egypt to find a pearl. But when the prince arrived, the people poured him a cup. Drinking it, he forgot he was the son of a king, forgot about the pearl and fell into a deep sleep.”

Written and directed by Terrence Malick, watch the first trailer for KNIGHT OF CUPS.

The cast includes Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Wes Bentley, Isabel Lucas, Teresa Palmer, Imogen Poots, Armin Mueller-Stahl and the voice of Ben Kingsley.

KNIGHT OF CUPS will have its World Premiere in the Competition Programme at the 65th Berlin Film Festival in 2015.

Bale plays a man caught up in a life of Hollywood excess.

Malick recently produced the black and white film, THE BETTER ANGELS, the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s days in Indiana. Read Travis Keune’s review HERE.

Director of TO THE WONDER, BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE NEW WORLD, and THE TREE OF LIFE, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Malick is currently in post-production on the untitled feature film based in the Austin music scene.

Screen Daily reports that FilmNation will handle international sales on the project starring Christian Bale and has licensed the UK and Germany to StudioCanal, France to Metropolitan, Australia to Roadshow and Italy to Adler.

Rights have gone in CIS (Central Partnership), Canada (eOne), Latin America (Sun), Bulgaria, Czech-Slovak, former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Romanic (Forum), Scandinavia (Svensk), Benelux (Paradiso) and Portugal (Lusomundo).

Deals closed in Switzerland (Elite), Turkey (Aqua), Greece-Cyprus (Spentzos), Iceland (Sam), Israel (LEV), Middle East (Italia), Hong Kong (Tomson), Indonesia (PT Amero) and Thailand (M Pictures).

CAA and WME Global representatives will jointly handle US rights in Berlin.