Aronofsky’s slate

By Dave Davis

Posted 19 years ago

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s dazzling, dizzying sci-fi life-death opus THE FOUNTAIN came and all-too-abruptly went this past November (a pox on you if you missed it. A pox on you!), but the ham hocks over (or Down, actually) at the Aussie site Moviehole pecked at his gray matter about it and other projects.

Aronofsky talks about THE FOUNTAIN’s casting and influences, and succinctly summarizes his feelings on the comparisons to 2001 (“Way premature”). But there’s some other interesting meat to chew in regards to his other past possibilities (BATMAN YEAR ONE) and potential projects, including LONE WOLF AND CUB and something called THE HUNT, which he describes as “a great action film in the spirit of PREDATOR”.

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