Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups (2015)

A quest.

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

Date of release
2015-09-10
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (749)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Director
Terrence Malick

Casting

Interesting facts

Knight of Cups is a 2015 American romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick. Starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman, the film follows Rick (Bale), a hedonistic screenwriter who goes on an odyssey through Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a series of adventures with several people, including his ex-wife Nancy (Blanchett) and his married lover Elizabeth (Portman).

Production

In November 2011, the film was announced with Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Isabel Lucas mentioned as cast. It was also announced the film would be shot back-to-back with Song to Song. To prepare, Bale read Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, a book about one man's existentialist search for spiritual redemption, on Malick's suggestion.

Production on the film began in June 2012 and lasted nine weeks. During production, many of the cast and crew were spotted filming throughout Los Angeles County and Las Vegas, as most of the filming took place on the streets and in public places.

Although a script was written, Bale received no pages from it, while all other cast members received only pages of internal and verbal monologue for each shooting day. Bale later said that while filming, he was unclear about what the final film would actually be. During production, Malick used a process he calls "torpedoing", where a character is thrown into a scene without the other actors' advance knowledge, forcing them to improvise.

The film spent two years in post-production, which consisted of a small group of editors in the beginning and widened throughout.

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