Darren Aronofsky gives more Noah details
"I don't think it's a very religious story. I think it's a great fable that's part of so many different religions and spiritual practices. I just think it's a great story that's never been on film."
The director also believes this story, a big-budget re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, is his shot at helming a large-scale, massive production.
"I want to make a big event film, and I think it can be that."
We also reported last week that Christian Bale is being eyed to play the title character, although the director did not respond to that story.
"No comment."
Noah will be made on an estimated $130 million budget, although no studios have signed on yet to finance. Our report from a few weeks ago indicated that New Regency, Paramount, Fox, and Summit are all circling the project.
Noah comes to theaters March 28th, 2014 and stars Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Saoirse Ronan. The film is directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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gandoff2169
@rudy I would welcome a new age approach to religious movies. Look at Passions of the Christ. It was brutal with how real it was. For that was how it truly was. I loved the old Heston movies. But the stories was not a PG style story. If Darren wants to make a film on the religious story of Noah, and make it as say Passions, then I am on board. But so far, any information on this movie, has show he is trying to distance himself from what Noah is. I want him to either make Noah, or just make a "biblical" era movie about a great flood which is not animals 2 by 2 and ECT. So he should just decided what he is going to do and not tippy toe around the subject. In the end, his words on the movie, like shown above, will upset those who want to and would see this movie due to its possiable connections to the biblical story.
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Rudy
@gandoff2169 Well phrased. Then I ask you this, could it be that he's making a religious movie in an atheistic standpoint?
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Bawnian©-Dexeus
So? I'm still watching it. Religion won't keep me from anything.
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Mr_Jellyfish
Well, Aronofsky hasn't let me down so far. I'm betting the film will be spiritual but won't be tied down to any particular religion. My only concern is that the Noah fable is one without morals, it essentially tells the story of a cruel and malicious deity who kills most life on earth for not conforming to his rules. I hope Aronofsky finds some sense of hope in this story!
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T.Clark
Who the f*ck cares? Just watch the damn movie lol
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gandoff2169
@rudy The the story is not Noah. Noah is a pure biblical story. If its just about the act of a great flood, then it could be based on any form of the story found in other cultures. They have proven threw science that a great flood took place in the middle east, during the same time the story of Noah took place. So they could even make it about a major flood in that same area. But to use the name, idea's of two animals each, ect; that makes it a religious film.
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Diaigma
Interesting way of looking at it. Curious about this project.
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SpaceCowboy
It's Aronosfsky, so I'll pass.
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bud2fresh
@truvision82 lol i can hear it now "GET TO THA BOAT AAGAGGGA" :)
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bud2fresh
@cupid I'm with you on this one
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thedude-abides
@seawolf63 Thanks, friend.
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Dan
To back up what @rudy is saying....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
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XxNickTheFilmCriticXx
Long as it's not as preachy as "The Book Of Eli", I'm good.
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Dan
You know what they should do? Team up Emmerich with Aronofsky lol. Let Emmerich run wild with his SFX stuff, which he's pretty good at, and let Aronofsky tell the story and direct the people. It could work. The flood scenes would look amazing, coupled with excellent story/acting.
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Rudy
@gandoff2169 As I stated below, the story of Noah isn't just a christian story, it's found all over the place with different cultures around the world. So it isn't unique to just the bible. Christians, Catholics can say all they want about the bible, but Aronofsky can follow the story whichever way he wants, because not only is the story found in so many different cultures, but in many different forms as well.
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Dan
@narrator Gosh, I think I'm gonna have to go with Hanna Montana on that one :P
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The Narrator: The Better Man
Lol, btw. Movieweb's "Face-off" just made the comparisons of The Hannah Montana Movie and Terminator Salvation. Thought that was a bit funny.
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The Narrator: The Better Man
Actually, saying no comment doesn't necessarily mean anything. He may very well wish to keep the ruse going, which would add discussion among the moviebuff masses concerning the movie, in turn generating a soon to be disappointed but hooked profit. Not sure if you follow, but yeah, it's late.
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TRUVISION82
Being that arnold swarchennegor is older now, i think he would be good for the part of Noah. He's not as big anymore and could deliver the character well, lets no forget him in conan.
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Seawolf63
@thedude-abides I also agree with your comment... very well said.
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gandoff2169
lol. Someone should clue Darren into the fact that Noah is a extremely religious story. lol. The entire basis is a man, is told by god to build a giant ship to house animals and a few people to survive the great floor. So how can he make it not "religious"?
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thedude-abides
Lol, @dan1. I need to read up on that as well.
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Dan
@thedude-abides @daveactor7 I've been meaning to see/read the Dead Sea Scrolls personally, I want to see what was controversial about them, specifically. I know bit details, but not the entire stories.
Which I'll be able to do easily soon enough...
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-google-dead-sea-scrolls-online.html
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thedude-abides
@dan1 I've seen things like this before. I saw something on the History Channel years ago when I was in like, 7th grade, of a satellite image of what appeared to be the stern of a gigantic wooden ark protruding from the high altitude snows of Mount Ararat. Surreal stuff.
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Daveactor7
@dan1 good read. I saw that on Nat Geo channel.
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Dan
@iamfratson @thedude-abides http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100428-noahs-ark-found-in-turkey-science-religion-culture/
Fascinating read. Prob inaccurate though, as the site points out.
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thedude-abides
@iamfratson Thanks, friend.
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I AM FRATSON
@thedude-abides agree 100% nicely put.
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thedude-abides
I think the whole religious aspect of this film is being blown way out of proportion. Most of the stories in the Bible themselves are parables -- stories told in prose in order to illustrate normative principles. Stories that we as a culture hold as true, but better serve us in terms of the respective lessons each story entails.
The fact that some people hold these stories as 100% proven fact that should never be deviated from is somewhat impractical in my eyes. The truth of this film is that it's really no different from reading a childrens' version of the Bible, complete with pictures and over-simplified adaptations of each story, just on a more radical scale.
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I AM FRATSON
anyways, im pumped for this. Bale would do a great job as Noah.
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