One man.
One man stood against the risings seas.
One man warned mankind about what would befall them, but they didn’t listen.
One man persevered and would not listen to those who called him crazy!
One man saved us all!
No, not this dude!
This dude!
Russell Crowe is Noah!
We’ve learned the deals are done for this big-ticket New Regency/Paramount co-production Noah which Deadline has been scooping first for nearly a year now. A formal announcement should come this next week. The once hoped-for spring start is now July, sources say. Russell Crowe is set to float the boat as Noah in Darren Aronofsky’s edgy Biblical re-telling of Noah’s Ark.
March 21, 2012 at 3:53 am
Seeing as how Crowe was railing against Jews and Christians who get circumcised as partakers of mutilation, I can see why he chose Noah and not a later figure in salvation history.
March 21, 2012 at 4:03 am
From the link: "Darren Aronofsky’s edgy Biblical re-telling of Noah’s Ark."
Noah's Ark, edgy? Aronofsky did Black Swan. Is "edgy" relative? How afraid should we be?
March 21, 2012 at 4:07 am
I just flung my cell phone at a bell-hop in jubilation.
March 21, 2012 at 11:52 am
I just flung my cell phone at a bell-hop in jubilation.
Funniest comment of the week. +1000
March 21, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Edgy: code word for bizarre and outragous.
March 21, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Edgy: code word for make faithful people look silly and stupid
March 21, 2012 at 8:42 pm
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!
March 21, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Maximus? Yes!
Noah? Hell no!
March 21, 2012 at 10:40 pm
0.o
How are they going to screw this up… they always have to screw things up….
I'm betting on feminist daughter-in-laws, an big deal about how not one species should be allowed to die off after it leaves the arc, and… hm… it's not God, it's global warming.
March 21, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Every time that I think the poltroons who run the Hollywood movie business have reached about the lowest point of absurdity imaginable, then something like this turns up. Here we have Hollywood, incapable of making an interesting 30 second tv commercial, attempting a Biblical story (!) starring a ridiculously over-rated ham in the key role.
Words fail me.
March 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Given Aronofsky's esoteric Talmudism on display in his other movies, I anticipate this retelling won't fail to denigrate Noah or Christianity (with artistic subtlety, of course!)
March 24, 2012 at 7:32 am
"Esoteric Talmudism"?
I'm going to assume you mean Kabbalah. And not the most esoteric reading of Kabbalah would denigrate Noah, who the Jews consider a prophet. Christianity, perhaps, but, well, we denigrate Arians, you know?
Aronofsky isn't a proponent of "esoteric Talmudism", in any historically recognizable sense of the phrase. His religious views have a hell of a lot more in common with Madonna than they do with the Baal Shem Tov.
March 24, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Christianity, perhaps, but, well, we denigrate Arians, you know?
???
*reads again, with the second paragraph* Oh! You're saying Aronofsky is an Arianist, right?
Sorry, haven't had coffee yet, so my initial response is along British press lines.
The improvised religions these days, no matter what label they use so they can have a costume or great soundbite, give me a headache….