Terrence Malick’s KNIGHT OF CUPS Trailer The first trailer for KNIGHT OF CUPS has the signature visual style of Terrence Malick, featuring as many camera lenses as movie stars. The film, directed and written by Malick (The Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line), stars 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 is scheduled to be released in theaters in 2015. 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.