Wait 100 Years to See Robert Rodriguez and John Malkovich’s Movie

Billed as “the movie you’ll never see”, 100 Years will, hopefully, get its release date in 2115, as long as someone discovers the time capsule and it doesn’t end up buried and forgotten somewhere.

Today, in news about cognac, experimental film-making, and/or weirdly high-profile marketing stunts: Robert Rodriguez and John Malkovich have teamed up to create a film that won’t be released to the public for 100 years. It’s a promotional thing paid for by the maker of the Louis XIII Cognac brand of alcohol, a premium drink that – LIKE THE FILM – is left to mature for 100 years before drinking. We’ll just have to take his word for it. He also insists that it’s sadly the duo’s best work. However, Rodriguez teased that 100 Years’ setting is in the present and is “emotionally charged”.

Louis XIII approached John Malkovich for an idea, but we don’t know exactly what it is yet.

The film, aptly titled 100 Years, will be preserved on film stock, because after 100 years of technological development, that’s still the most reliable system we have. On days like Friday of last week [referring to the terrorist attacks in the French capital], one can see considerably dark clouds again. Each of the teasers show the same scene through different interpretations of the future. Malkovich said, “As we were preparing this and preparing to write something for it I even went through things about what had been predicted in 1918 or 1915 or 1919”.

Malkovich was excited to tell about the movie saying that there were several options when the project was first presented of what [the future] would be. I asked Malkovich and Rodriguez if they had any fears that a savvy thief might find a way to unlock it before the film’s intended release. “Some of it was strangely accurate, oddly enough, but of course the vast majority of it was unimaginable”.

‘And we have to think, we can’t try to impress them with flash. And it should be seen by a few, at least, as the Louis XIII people are sending out invites to 1,000 important people, suggesting they leave the tickets to their children. At that time, they’ll grab an old projector (the movie will be preserved on film stock) and press play.