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Deadline was the first to reveal that Russell Crowe was Darren Aronofsky’s choice to star in Noah, the coproduction between Paramount Pictures and New Regency. The partners just announced his closed deal. Deadline also reported that Liam Neeson was circling the other major lead. We’ll have to see if that one sticks. Here’s the announcement:
HOLLYWOOD, CA (April 22, 2012) – Paramount Pictures and New Regency Productions jointly announced today that Academy Award®-winner Russell Crowe has been cast as Noah in Academy Award®-nominated director Darren Aronofsky’s feature film of the same name. Paramount will release the film on March 28, 2014.
Said Aronofsky, “I’d like to thank Paramount and Regency for backing my team’s work to breathe new life into the biblical epic. I rejoice that Russell Crowe will be by my side on this adventure. It’s his immense talent that helps me to sleep at night. I look forward to being wowed by him every day.”
NOAH is a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood. The screenplay was written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel and revised by Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter John Logan (GLADIATOR, HUGO).
Scott Franklin and Aronofsky of Protozoa Pictures, along with Mary Parent of Disruption Entertainment, will produce the film. The film will be executive produced by Ari Handel (BLACK SWAN), Arnon Milchan of New Regency and Chris Brigham (INCEPTION, ARGO).
The movie will begin shooting this July in Iceland and New York.
Crowe is repped by WME.
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Will Darren Aronofsky and Paramount have to consult Al Gore for exact measurements of sea temperature and depth back in Noah’s time? And speaking of, when was the ark finished? Was it a Thursday? Did he break for Sabbath? Is there a muzuzah on the ark door? Will the animals be ‘free range’ animals? Will PETA be monitoring the film? Will Bjork play a swan since they’re filming in Iceland, and if so, does she have a twin for the two/by/two sequences?
Hey Bobby! Bitter much? Perhaps your posted comments are just a lame attempt at humor. (Or you just want to show how us clever your are). As the kids today would say, “Major Fail”.
Checked out your website. Nice bio. You have a terrific future in the past.
“a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark” being filmed in Iceland and NYC? Why do I suspect this is set in the future.
Great news!!!! I love Russell Crowe, he is a terrific actor, so intense and Darren is a great director.
I agree! I think Russel Crowe will make a great Noah. I hope they do a good job with the script. This has the potential to be epic if they do it right.
All part of Crowe’s master plan to eventually play God himself. Of course, Crowe’s God will be humorless and stare gravely at everything.
I think its safe to say that Russel’s Star is once again on the rise after several years of mediocrity, with his cameo in Man of Steel and the highly anticipated Les ‘Miserables, and now this, he’s back in the game!!
Let me guess, assistant at WME?
Great news – this will help other bible themed movies get funded and produced. I wonder who will play Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives?
Does anyone care about Russell Crowe? I would avoid this movie for this very reason.
I care about Russell Crowe. Nowadays, his name alone won’t draw me to a movie, but his presence would be a major factor in my decision.
This will be a huge bomb on a John Carter level.
Don’t agree. Most people didn’t have a clue who John Carter was.
Everybody knows the story of Noah.
I’m just waiting out on the scene of Rusty wearing red, white & green & holding his beloved bunnies.
No it won’t Noah is going to be an action hero like Gladiator so there!
Yep. This is a dumb idea. The Bible thumpers won’t approve and the rest of us will just roll our eyes.
It’s a story about a man loading a boat with animals. And then unloading them. It’s a comedy premise, maybe, but a drama? Nah.
I will bet 2 cubits that you are correct. This film will be a very difficult sell.
props for working the biblical “cubit” into a DH comment thread!
wasn’t the concept of Russell Crowe and a boat already spoofed on South Park? And didn’t the box office of Steve Carrell and the Ark do enough to scare money away from this concept?
excellent. I love a good myth adaptation. Not that this will be good but you know Mythology is always fun on film.
It’s become hip and fashionable to say “mythology” when referring to the Bible.
But it just shows how much of a herd-following feather brain you really are…
I’m both excited about this and terrified for everyone involved.
The story of Noah does not sit well with me because it is one of the most absurd stories in the bible, yet it is one of the first stories that Jews and Christians present to children as fact (along with Samson’s magic hair and Jonah and the whale). After they buy into that, they will believe anything.
I wish this story would just go away.
As great an actor as Crowe is, he has lost his mojo in the States and this smacks of a disaster.
Anyone who enjoys good acting should care about Russell Crowe,seeing as how he is such a good example of an excellent performer. Ah the bomb prediction…so predictable.I am looking forward to this project as it contains no vampires, super heroes,or flesh-eating zombies.
How do you know?
Awesome. I love science fiction movies.
I think this would be more accurately classified as fantasy
Jerk!
I might be mistaken-but this sounds terrible. A “close adaptation~? That sounds a bit like “We know we can’t do justice to Noah’s story,but,we’ll come “close”. Sounds like an immense bomb. Probably be long too. Just what I needed-spending between 2 and 3 hours in a cinema watching Russell Crowe build a boat.
Is Paramount not aware that Russell Crowe is box office poison?
There was once upon a time not too long ago when he was able to open a movie, if he has the right movie, it will do well.
So i guess this is the serious version of the steve carell movie Evan Almighty….
Why isn’t Michael Bay directing this? It needs enormous explosions and giant killer robots and massive asteroids hurtling toward earth. Where is the franchise potential for this? What’s the sequel? How do we design a video game? Does Hasbro have a toy ark in the works that is actually an iPod or an iPhone? If not why not? I invest a lot of money in Viacom and I expect results damn it. Give me something as big as Transformers or G.I. Joe otherwise I’m selling all my shares I’ll go invest in Disney that’s a company that knows what they’re doing you’d never see them spend $250 Million on a movie that nobody wants to see.
Dear Sir,
We are attempting to do something worthy and uplifting here. This is going to be a Biblical epic in the classic tradition of Cecil B. DeMille. Our hope is to win a bunch of Oscars for this picture. There won’t be any toys or video games it wouldn’t be classy to do that but we will have some ancillary products and merchandise revenue just not as much as we get from a picture like Star Trek. And we can do many sequels the Bible is full of stories we can do. Old Testament stories are very popular all over the world. New Testament stories can come later. Don’t sell your stock instead you should invest more money in Viacom. Sincerely yours,
It’s obviously going to be a comedy with Russell Crowe as Noah. “Oh, so you’re God and you want me to build an ark? Crikey! You’ll have to fight me first!”
When will this Hollywood trend of remaking classic fairy tales end?
A live action Noah story with a villain costing close to $200 Million released in March? John Carter part Deux. Flopville.
Cant wait to see a self-hating Noah shot handheld from the back pacing back and forth on his boat, having visions that the animals talk to him and call him a loser before deciding to kill himself by drowning. The average Aronofsky’ plot basically.
I’ll never understand Darren Aronofsky. He just about destroyed his career overreaching with The Fountain and the second he rebuilds it with two back to back great movies, he goes right back to epic blockbusters.
This is going to be a spectacular failure.
They’re making some changes to the script and adding a scene where the angry,arrogant, narcissistic,drunk Noah hits a zebra in the head with a cell phone.
Now, the recipe for disaster seems complete.
We are going to use a special top secret weather machine to make it rain worldwide for 40 days and 40 nights to generate publicity for this film. People will think the world really is coming to an end and they’ll all undergo religious revival and we will make five billion dollars on this.