young adult Pocahontas and her young son happily playing in the gardens of their English estate. Rolfe, in a voice-over, reads a letter addressed to their only son about his deceased Native American mother, who is heard to say, "Mother, now I know where you live," with concluding images of nature in the New World. Cast Colin Farrell as Captain John Smith Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas (Matoaka, Rebecca Rolfe) Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport Christian Bale as John Rolfe August Schellenberg as Chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock) Wes Studi as Opechancanough David Thewlis as Edward Wingfield Yorick van Wageningen as Samuel Argall Ben Mendelsohn as Ben Raoul Trujillo as Tomocomo Brían F. O'Byrne as Lewes Irene Bedard as Pocahontas's Mother (Nonoma Winanuske Matatiske) John Savage as Thomas Savage Alex Rice as Patawomeck's Wife Jamie Harris as Emery Janine Duvitski as Mary Thomas Clair as Patawomeck (Japazaw) Michael Greyeyes as Rupwew Kalani Queypo as Parahunt Noah Taylor as Selway Ben Chaplin as Robinson Eddie Marsan as Eddie Billy Merasty as Kiskiack Jonathan Pryce as King James VI & I Alexandra W. B. Malick as Queen Anne Production Development Terrence Malick began work on the script for The New World in the late 1970s. After The Thin Red Line, Malick worked on a film about Che Guevara and his failed revolution in Bolivia. When financing had yet to come through, Malick was offered the chance to direct The New World and left the Guevara project in March 2004. Production on The New World was underway by July of that year. Filming The New World was the first collaboration between Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. The film was notable for its emphasis on authenticity, from location, settings and costumes to the casting of Native American actors and extras who were trained by Blair Rudes, professor of linguistics at UNC-Charlotte, to speak a form of the extinct Powhatan language (a type of Virginian Algonquian) reconstructed for the film by Rudes. Some footage was also filmed at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, England. Principal photography wrapped after three and a half months in November 2004. Post-production The film was originally set to be released in November 2005, but release had to be postponed. Malick was still editing the footage he had shot. He is well known for editing his films up until the last minute, often trimming his films and leaving entire characters out of the final