document: The Tree of Life to premiere in UK An insider 's guide to the world of cinema by David Gritten . It 's a very British coup -- legendary US director Terrence Malick 's long-awaited new film The Tree of Life , starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn , is to receive its world premiere not in Cannes next month , but a week earlier in the UK . Its distribution company , Icon , has confirmed its May 4 British release date to me . Speculation about the film has been swirling for more than a year ; at one point , it was expected to be screened in Cannes last year . This all adds to the mystique that surrounds the elusive Malick . The film 's American distributor , Fox Searchlight , was clearly taken by surprise by news of the UK opening , describing it as `` not true '' to a Hollywood website . My guess is that the film will still be shown in Cannes , though not in competition for the Palme d'Or . What do you get when you combine the talents of Johnny Depp , gonzo author-journalist Hunter S Thompson and Bruce Robinson , wayward writer‑director of Withnail and I ? A combustible mix , certainly . Or maybe three good reasons to look forward to the autumn release of Rum Diary , a film based on Thompson 's semi-autobiographical novel , starring Depp and scripted by Robinson , who has also directed ; it 's his first film in nearly 20 years . Thompson -LRB- who died in 2005 -RRB- showed Depp the draft of his Rum Diary novel 15 years back , while Depp was shooting another of his works , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , and urged him to star in it . I gather Rum Diary , in which Depp plays a thinly disguised journalist , down on his luck in Puerto Rico , was completed two years ago . It certainly wo n't be boring .
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