3,000 hours of footage, 5 years of editing: This top-secret director is preparing his new film for Cannes… 2025!

Martin Scorsese’s Jesus film will begin production this year, with Terrence Malick entering his fifth year of editing. If the rumors talked about the premiere in 2024, now we know that we will have to wait another year before discovering the long-awaited film. However, exclusive new details about the project have been revealed (via The Film Stage ).

Actor Geza Rohrig, who plays Jesus in the film, recently appeared at the university to talk about his career and confirmed that the film is set to premiere at Cannes in 2025. He also revealed that The Way of the Wind won’t exactly focus. Jesus and the Apostle Peter (Matthias Schoenerts), but about Peter wanting Jesus to get involved politically to end Roman oppression, while the latter opposes it.

Geza Rohrig It’s also confirmed that Jesus won’t perform miracles in the film, which therefore takes on a more down-to-earth tone. He also noted that Malick first hoped to make the film in the 1990s with Disney and a big budget, before abandoning the project when the studio wouldn’t allow him the final cut. Thus he began the production of La Ligne rouge (1998).

The actor also revealed that he accepted the role after receiving a message from his agent that an unnamed director wanted him to play Jesus in the film. After studying for the role, he met a mysterious director in an Italian restaurant. Geza Rohrig — who is primarily a punk-rock poet and artist who made his acting debut in 2015’s Son of Saul — has not acknowledged at all Terrence MalickAnd he even had to call his wife to ask if he wassomeone special“Before his legendary status was announced.

5 star cast

the way of the wind Here are some episodes from the life of Jesus, all by the chosen actors. Besides Geza Rohrig and Matthias SchoenaertsThe feature film will also star Ben Kingsley, Joseph Fiennes, John Rhys-Davies, Tawfiq Barhom, Douglas Booth, Aidan Turner and Matthew Kasowitz, in addition to Mark Rylance as Satan – in several versions of Satan, as he said. We will be in Deauville in September 2019.

“He must have had 3000 hours of rush! A movie can last for 17 hours“, he also joked Matthew Kasowitz At RFM last August. In the film, the French actor plays the role of John, the “brother of Jesus”. “This is one of his most important films because Malick is very religious. I might be stuck in editing, but the experience was great“, he said.

Since the inception of the project, there have been very few updates, although we heard about it last year Terrence Malick was “very satisfied” editing. If a 2025 premiere is indeed considered, it would be the longest editing period of the filmmaker’s career.

Malik shoots, “It’s like stepping into the ring”

also last summer Mark Rylance He spoke about his experience on the set during an interview with Hungarian media outlet RTL (The Film Stage).

“We don’t have much time to talk during filming. I stood there like Satan, a 28-page monologue running through my mind while Jesus barely said a word. Most of the time I mistake Jesus for Satan; This is not the time for in-depth discussions. There is no rehearsal time during filming, so there is no time for long conversations. It’s like a boxer who is only focused on getting in the ring. Discussing the history of Hungary does not help at such a time. Especially not in a Terrence Malick movie where everything is at stake. However, I got along very well with Geza; It was a great honor to perform alongside the son of Saul. I believe Son of Saul is legitimately in the top 10 of all time and his performance is stunning.“

“I hope Terence finishes the movie– he finally concluded. Fingers crossed for Cannes in 2025.

In the meantime, we invite you to re-watch one of Terrence Malick’s classics: The Red Line is currently available to rediscover on streaming Disney+.