Oscar-nominated Black Swan director plans to bring $130m 'fantasy epic' of Noah's ark to the big screen, reports say
Darren Aronofsky plans to follow up his global hit Black Swan with his most ambitious project so far, a $130m (�79m) retelling of the story of Noah's ark, Deadline reports.
Aronofsky is hot property in Hollywood following spectacular returns for Black Swan, which has taken more than $315m worldwide on a budget of just $12m. Several studios are said to be interested in part-funding his next project. According to Deadline, the film-maker is planning a "fantasy epic" which will provide an opportunity for him to "create a world".
The last notable film of the story of Noah to make it to cinemas came in 1928, though an animated film, Noah's Ark: The New Beginning, is scheduled for release sometime this year. Elements of the biblical and Qur'anic tale were borrowed for 2007's Evan Almighty, the poorly received follow-up to 2003 Jim Carrey comedy Bruce Almighty.
Aronofsky has shown interest in similar fare in the past: he recently considered directing an epic retelling of the story of Moses. However, his latest attempt at grand-scale film-making, 2006's The Fountain, almost wrecked his career and is still considered by many to be his grand folly.
"The US indie director Darren Aronofsky has made a couple of excellent films ? Pi and Requiem for a Dream ? but with this third one, he has, as they say in Hollywood, laid an egg," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw in his review of The Fountain. "An egg so vast they will have to knock down the walls of the cinema to get it out every time the film is shown, employing navvies in gas masks for the task."
The story of Noah is often described as a flood myth, examples of which exist in almost every culture and civilisation. In the biblical version, Noah is a 900-year-old man who loads two of every animal and a few members of his family on to a large boat after God tells him that a great deluge is coming. God turns out to be right, and everyone who is not on the ark dies shortly afterwards.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/08/darren-aronofsky-noahs-ark-film
No comments:
Post a Comment