( CNN ) -- Terrence Malick 's next project , `` Knight of Cups , '' will apparently turn the filmmaker 's lens on Hollywood itself . The first official trailer for the drama arrived online this week as `` Knight of Cups '' prepares to bow at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival . The movie was written and directed by Malick , and stars Christian Bale , Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman . The plot has been kept largely under wraps , except for the vague understanding that it focuses on `` celebrities and excess . '' The new two-minute trailer does n't exactly expand on that concept , but it does give us a clearer picture of what to expect . We now know that Bale plays a man named Rick , who 's adrift in life and has evidently lost his sense of self while becoming trapped in life 's `` excesses . '' Judging from the dialogue in the trailer , it is n't a stretch to imagine that the movie 's set in the bubble of Hollywood : `` See the palm trees ? They tell you anything 's possible , '' says one voice . `` No one cares about reality anymore , '' chimes in another . The `` Knight of Cups '' clip also comes with an official synopsis , but it 's as ethereally abstract as the trailer itself . `` 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 , '' the description says . `` Rick 's father used to read this story to him as a boy . The road to the East stretches out before him . Will he set forth ? '' Malick 's `` Knight of Cups '' is set to open in the U.S. in 2015 .
The first trailer for The `` Knight of Cups '' has arrived . The movie stars Natalie Portman , Christian Bale and Natalie Portman . It will be screened at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival .