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BREAKING: Paramount and New Regency have formalized a deal to partner on Noah, the biblical epic that Darren Aronofsky will direct as his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated smash Black Swan. Deadline told you in late June that Paramount was going to win a project after a bidding battle with 20th Century Fox to partner with New Regency. Apparently it takes less time to build an ark and survive a biblical flood than it does to close a deal like this, but the partners have also locked in Gladiator scribe John Logan to rewrite the script by Aronofsky and Ari Handel. Aronofsky and Scott Franklin will produce it.
The film is being fast tracked in hopes of getting it into production by next spring. It fits in to Paramount’s mandate to make films with global appeal. ”Since I was a kid, I have been moved and inspired by the story of Noah and his family’s journey,” Aronofsky said. “The imaginations of countless generations have sparked to this epic story of faith. It’s my hope that I can present a window into Noah’s passion and perseverance for the silver screen.” Aronofsky and Logan were repped by CAA.
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This.will.be.epic.
Did I say this will be epic?
John Logan is a god, wonder if he’ll ever direct?
Now if they can just find a 700 year old actor to play the titular character.
Clint Eastwood?
This is legendary! I knew it would happen. But greats news. Love to see great filmmakers get a chance to do interesting projects like this! Come Hollywood, learn from this!
Kudos to Paramount for taking a risk on this, but I’m afraid today’s audiences just won’t buy the Noah’s Ark story. It’s a fable, not realistic or believable in a “Gladiator” type way at all.
Isn’t it creepy that your comment “…I’m afraid today’s audiences just won’t buy the Noah’s Ark story. It’s a fable, not realistic or believable in a “Gladiator” type way at all.” was foretold in the book of Revelations?
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Okay. So, how would you tell this story in a way that made linear sense without stripping away the magic? How will it deal with the thousands of species that didn’t live on the same continent as Moses? How will it deal with the specific size of the Ark that the Bible explains and how it makes no sense for all the animals to fit inside? How will it deal with the meat eating animals needing to…you know, eat meat during the flood?
This version of the story will certainly be stripped down and lose most of the magic because while the magic might be moving in text, it will be confusing and credibility stretching in full motion.
Moses didn’t believe in the devil either. Never mentions him, nor an afterlife. Those were Persian tales Jesus picked up in his day (which probably explains the reference to the Magis.) As to Biblical predictions, JC also “foretold” that he would come back in a cloud before “the present generation has passed away” with such shaking in the heavens, men would faint from terror. (Lk 21) NIV and others have only recently retranslated it to “the present race”, whatever that means since races have been mixing and melding since time immemorial.
Noah is only a retelling of the flood story in the old Mesopotamian Gilgamesh tales, like so much else in the Bible borrowed from older civilisations. Maybe they could avoid Judeo-Christian frenzy and hysteria by doing that. Then again, probably not…
Amazing how smug and snarky people get about things they don’t understand.
The fool in his heart has said there is no God.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom.
Will there be unicorns?
^ Like they didn’t buy Passion of the Christ?
it’s a story that begins with its climax……….not sure what they do in the third act when the “lifeboat” malaise and panic starts to set in with Noah’s family. The tale becomes very internal and not very cinematic.
Seems like that would in fact lend to great drama – the basis of any good movie/story.
I saw a new telling of Noah’s Ark this weekend, it was called Take Shelter. And it was excellent
it’s a real ricky project
Well with all other books optioned and every movie being remade, I ask this… What is the over/ under for the amount of Bible stories we are going to be seeing over the course of the next few years…?
9.5 – over/under?
ugh… more biblical garbage? really?
I’m a staunch Atheist, but you’ve got to be kidding me? The Bible has some of the greatest storytelling ever. Moses looking out over Mount Nebo but being unable to enter the land of milk and honey, the book of Job, the story of Lot and the story of Adam and Eve are some of my favorites. If you can’t overlook the fact that people take the books literally (for some insane reason) then you’re just cheating yourself.
Um, there is about one major biblical movie every 10 years. Not sure what you are referring to, unless the very idea of a biblical movie angers you, in that case I’m not sure what to say to you (maybe just don’t see it?)
If you believe in the Bible or not, no matter what your faith, it definitely isn’t garbage. Even “if” it was ALL made up (lol) it is still a serious work of many geniuses full of wisdom and knowledge.
Like billions of other people, including myself. The book known as the Bible is a way of life.
I am so excited about this project, and I am assuming Mr. Darren has a solid foundation of faith and will be true to the text.
You…um…haven’t seen any of Aronofsky’s movies, have you? The man makes movies about G-d and obsession, but they usually don’t end in a way that implies hope. Of course, they are in keeping with the Adoni/Elohim dichotomy of the Torah.
Get over yourself, pal. The Bible has been around a lot longer than you have and ever will.
This movie will do well! With a built-in audience of Christians as well as a built-in audience of sophisticated moviegoers who loved Black Swan, this movie could definitely be a huge financial hit. All who are involved – PLEASE DON’T MESS THIS UP!!! It’d be totally unrealistic to have harsh language & sexual themes in the awesome story!
Not sure why Christians are built in as Noah pre-dates Christianity by a few thousand years. It seems that Jewish people would be just as interested.
“It’d be totally unrealistic to have harsh language & sexual themes in the awesome story!”
Whereas Noah collecting two of about 1.5 million species is entirely plausible.
1.5 Billion species on the Ark? It would only take in the hundreds. 1 specie of a dog with another specie of a dog would end up creating the hundreds of different species of dogs we have now.
Also many animals didn’t make it on. My guess only the ones that were important for the environmental chain at the time. Like how we need Bee’s for flowers, same principal.
I take it you’ve never actually read the Bible, particularly the Noah’s Ark story. Remember how it ends?
Ummm…have you read your Bible? Because the first thing Noah does once he gets off the Ark is plant a vineyard. YHWH makes it grow overnight and then Noah makes wine to celebrate, which YHWH ferments instantly. Then, he gets way too drunk, his son Ham possibly sodomizes him and is thus cursed. This is the beginning of the Canaanites, who the Israelites later destroyed so fully ‘that no one shall forget their name.’
Plus, you have the number of men and women on the Ark. The whole thing is about reproduction. Sex is an essential part of the story.
The thing with Ham sodomizing Noah is a bit of a stretch and doesn’t entirely make sense (his other sons covered Noah without looking upon his naked body, but Ham looked upon his father, this defiling him and was punished for this) so I doubt it will even be mentioned, but to pretend that there isn’t sex in the story of Noah is straight up silly.
The Talmudic interpretations (this is a JEWISH story, not a Christian story, and the Talmud is taken to be as holy as the Torah in Judaism because the highest possible calling is for a Jew to consider and interpret the texts, ie, the living constitution) consider sodomy to be a possibility because the specific wording of ‘saw his father’s nakedness’ is used only one other time in the bible, in a passage that refers directly to the rape of a woman.
I think the crowd for this and Black Swan are two different ones. I guess I can see there being an audience for this , not me for sure. I had no interest in Passion either . He should have done another small indie project .
The Passion is an incredibly antisemitic movie. It’s also a masterpiece of filmmaking.
BLACK SWAN is one of the most profitable movies of the last 10 years, but Darren should have figured out how to sequelize it–it’s rich and powerful enough that with a little massaging it could become a true female-driven media franchise/art-horror series.
I thought noah was christian bale?
This can never compare to Bruce Almighty!
Watson, it appears we have stumbled upon an old alt.religion usenet thread.
This will do wonders for Mt. Ararat tourism.
The writing for Gladiator was terrible. Just awful.
Is this really necessary? I mean, can’t Disney do an animated version of it? I wish Darren would concentrate on smaller films.
Surely to insult the writing of such a great film, you did in fact read the script? Or is a screenplay only dialogue in your world?
out of all the bible stories you pick the lamest most unrealistic one? okay whatever. thats why Nolan is famous and this guy will never be.
I don’t know about this one….Darren Aronoksky with a small budget usually means box office gold. Darren Aronofsky with an enormous budget could mean disaster! Darren Aronofsky with the New Regency creative team’s input WILL BE a disaster. Attention New Regency creative department: Leave Mr. Aronofsky alone to make a masterpiece. No creative input is needed. Please stay, far, far, away. Thank you.
Nolan is nothing but a poor man David fincher(whos basically a poor man William friedkin).The dark knight was basically seven,zodiac and fight club all mixed into one film.Especially fight club(the whole anarchy and destruction plot and the end fight with joker about to blow up two boats instead of buildings)Everything nolan does it has been done before yet people treat him as if hes so original.
What’s any of this got to do with Nolan?
Div.
Poor man David fincher whos a poor man William friekin? just lmfao.why is nolan a poor man fincher? because the dark knight had some similarities to those films you mention.Would Fincher be a poor man(besides friedkin) director to other directors whos films influence seven(silence of the lambs,the french connection),fight club(a clockwork orange,taxi driver) or zodiac(law and order episode)?.p.s. Fincher is not a poor man friedkin,hes ten times better than Friedkin ever was…Friedkin only made two good films.
Nothing about this movie will be a “disaster” except for the flood itself. I wish this project nothing but the best and I am extremely glad that this film is finally being made! Congrats!
Evan help us!
Can’t they just end the movie with the Ark finding land and the dove flying away and everybody filing out, before you get to Noah’s nakedness? Seems like you’d want to finish on a high note.