To the Wonder - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[tom]

Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck appeared in State of Play (2009).

[bryan]

Terrence Malick is following his semi-autobiographical turn in The Tree of Life with another film based on his own life experiences. Malick, like Ben Affleck's character of "Neil", had a romance with a woman in France in the 80s named Michèle Morette (like Kurylenko's character of "Marina"), married her in 1985, and then moved back to Texas with her. They divorced in 1998, however, and Malick reconnected with Alexandra "Ecky" Wallace, a former high school sweetheart (like McAdams' "Jane") from his days at St. Stephen's school in Austin, Texas.

[kenzi]

Terrence Malick asked Rachel McAdams to be in this movie

[dustin]

Hungarian actress Julia Papp auditioned for Marina.

[ruby]

Multiple sources, including The Los Angeles Times, reported that the film was shot under the title "The Burial", after a listing for the film was discovered under that name on a French film database website. However, Producer Sarah Green stated, "It is not called 'The Burial'. We don't know what 'The Burial' is. Somebody else attached that name, but there is no movie that we're working on called 'The Burial.'"

[duane]

Ben Affleck replaced Christian Bale as the lead, and would succeed him in the role of Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman less than a year later.

[alyssa]

At the Venice Film Festival, the film was met with both boos and cheers.

[bessie]

Rachel McAdams lied about her horse hair allergy, to get the part.