Exclusive: Aronofsky To Direct Noah The helmer goes from Fountain to flood..
He likes a challenge, that Darren Aronofsky. After his megabucks arthouse sci-fi romance The Fountain had the plug pulled by studio Warner Bros, causing the writer/director to rethink it as a minibucks arthouse sci-fi romance, he’s now planning to make something he describes as “huge”.
“It’s an adaptation of Noah’s Ark,” he exclusively reveals to Empire Online, “and I’m pretty much done with the script.” But it’s not, he insists, to be confused with the upcoming Evan Almighty. “This is not a comedy. It’s funny, because Noah’s always been done as a comedy. This is definitely more the sci-fi version. It’s the traditional Noah story, but it’s told in a serious way. More fantasy than comedy.”
Don’t hold your breath, though – sounds like Noah won’t be going before the cameras for quite some time. Says Aronofsky: “I’m probably going to do something smaller first.”
Click here for more from Darren Aronofsky on The Fountain DVD
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no chance this movie will test the most dedicated film lover and they will fail and snore and disrupt the boring movie and i have seen arfonskys films and there nowhere near as good as nolans ... Read More
This could be really great if Aronofsky makes Noah a paranoid loner, similar to Max in Pi. The story is actually quite simple to do, what will require the skill as far as directing goes will be the maintaining of audience interest.
Darren will have to establish a decent mix of morality and chaos (as we remember the Pi tagline 'Faith in chaos') if the film is to be successful. I for one will be in the queue when it opens as I think Aronofsky is up there with Nolan and PT Anderson when it comes t... Read More
He's on a hiding to nothing here. Not sure people will want another two-of-everything-on-a-boat saga after Mr Carells antics this summer. ... Read More
...be interesting if he took it out of the biblical context & just used the idea of the flood & the animals & a man who builds a big fat ark & stuff............. be even better if Indiana Jones turned up at the end with a load of Nazi's and released all the inhabitants of the ark! Bring that on... Aronofsky... you can have that idea for free mate! ... Read More
Kadaj, are you serious? The story's about God wiping life off the planet bar a few animals and five or six people! That's pretty controversial! ... Read More
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Are you fuckin kidding me!? Eh, Passion of the Christ made more money than the Vatican spends on bread in a decade.
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Erm, not really clever to compare Jesus with Noah. I don't think there can be much controversy with this tale.
Passion of the Christ was controversial because of its anti-Jew messages and extreme violence; they'll be no such problem here.
Not every tale Bible-related is goin to be a $300+ million worldwide blockbuster. Or was your comment just a r... Read More
