Darren Aronofsky’s revisionist and ambitious take on the classic Noah’s Ark biblical tale will start filming in the summer and according to Deadline, Oscar-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe is wanted for the title role of Noah. Interestingly Gladiator writer John Logan has most recently helped Aronofsky with the script.
Meanwhile, Aronofsky is also hoping to get Liam Neeson attached for another key role with some suggesting he could be in line to play the ‘major villain’ that Aronofsky’s DP Matthew Libatique suggested his director was searching for. Now I haven’t read the bible since school but wasn’t the weather and God the villain in Noah’s Ark fable? So is Neeson, who has already played Zeus, now playing God or am I missing something?
Update: According to Jeff Wells on a recent Oscar Poker chat, the villain is much more human;
“Someone who’s saying ‘Listen, don’t listen to him. We’re fine! We don’t need to build any ark. Don’t be so alarmist! Don’t be so fundamentalist.’ You know? One of those guys. So it sounded like a lot of fun, actually.”
No deals have been signed as of yet but Paramount/New Regency are said to be backing the Black Swan director financially and as long as Crowe & Neeson like the idea of the movie and their schedules align, they will be available for the right money. Paramount are putting $130 million into what we hear is a dark and complex take on Noah, this isn’t the kind of Golden Age of Hollywood blockbuster based on the bible’s most outlandish story that you might have expected.
Aronofsky has been trying to crack Noah for the best part of the last six years (at least anyway as that’s only since his desire became public) but after he dropped plans to make The Wolverine, he got serious about making it.
We had heard previously that Aronofsky had wanted method man and fellow Oscar winner Christian Bale for the leading role but with him busy working on two Terrence Malick films, attention has turned to Russell Crowe right now, an actor who when he is on his game in films like Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind and L.A. Confidential (I know, a lot of years ago now) there are few who can match him. He really is like the Marlon Brando of his career and when he has the passion for something, his intensity is off the charts. Just like Brando, Crowe is currently cameo-ing in the Elder Statesman role as Superman’s father Jor-El in Man of Steel for Zack Snyder but if he takes this role on, seemingly hasn’t moved into his twilight years yet.
Hollywood’s new go-to man Michael Fassbender was also spoken of but Paramount want a huge star for this and Crowe seems to tick all boxes.
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Matt Holmes.
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This e-mail is About the possible Remake of the Noah Flood in Religion and Myth, into another movie. Could you forward this to the Producer or give me an address?
All folks today, and in the Past, Religious or Not, Have ‘Not’ Taken Care of our Home Planet Spaceship. But Polluted it with High Tech Pollution that Destroyed it with a Planetary Flood, recorded in Religion and Myth.
The Survivors Blamed on this on the Man-Made Gods, whether One God, Trinity Gods, or Many Man-Made Gods.
‘If’ Genesis 7,8, KJV, were Translated Correctly, Timewise, Humans today, would see the Noah/Atlantis Flood was a Planetary Flood, that lasted 1 year, 1 month, and 27 days.
Why are these Scriptures in the KJV, and others, still Mis-taught as a 40 day flood in the Mid-east as Mistranslated in the Past? And Portrayed in the 1900s in Religion and Secular, on TV, and in Movies, as a 40 day Mideast Flood? There are many Flood stories around the Planet beside the Noah Flood, on www.
Humans have had a High Tech Science Revolution since 1900, like the Recorded High Tech Killer God of Abraham that bombed Sodom and Gomorrah with ‘fire from heaven’? And the Killer God with the Children of Israel, that Killed the Children in Egypt and the Soldiers chasing them.
The Myth Writings of the High Tech Atlantis/Lemuria/Mu Human Society was also part of this Killer Society during Noah’s Time. The God with Abraham used ‘fire from heaven’ Atomic Bombs on Sodom and Gomorrah. Just as our Home Planet today, has many Killer ‘Gods’ with Atomic and Nuclear Bombs. High Tech Human History in Past Religion and Myth Writings is Repeating Itself today.
The USA also used Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and has 761 Military Bases around the Planet, with the largest one in Iraq. How peaceful is this?
I have many posting about this, and more High Tech Science in Religion and Myth called ‘Super’natural Gods, on www. and Facebook under Dolores Lear. Hope this Info could tell the Story of Noah better than it has been in the Past.
Dolores R. Lear
ggkaty@yahoo.com
Maybe this will help some of your questions.
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