Russell Crowe Confirmed For Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH
It’s been common knowledge ever since the project was announced, but now Paramount Pictures/New Regency have now confirmed Australian actor Russell Crowe will be playing the titular role in Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic NOAH. This has been a bit of a passion project for the Black Swan Helmer and has had a new rumour about it nearly every second day about it, even last year we had some conceptional art but now it’s taking giant strides to becoming reality
Crowe will play Noah the famous ship builder whose given the divine order of building an ark, collecting the animals in pairs saving them from the impending catastrophic flood. It’s said the film will be a close adaptation of the story from the bible and this is where I have my concerns, whose bible? Many will say Christian one, but Christianity is a collective name of Western based religions majority follow similar bibles but some scriptures are slightly different interpretations. Though I love epic films but you create a film which is religious nature there will always be someone who’ll be offended.
Aronofsky has written a script which has been revised by Ari Handel plus Gladiator/Hugo writer John Logan with production set to start this July using New York and Iceland as it’s locations the latter also been a location for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. As for other Cast confirmations just Crowe’s part in the film has been confirmed, no word if last week’s rumours that Saorise Ronan or Jennifer Connolly are to join too. I may not be old enough to remember them first time around but when it comes to ‘epics’ I always look towards Ben Hur, Ten Commandments, Cleopatra as the templates to what I call ‘epic films’ So does Darren Aronofsky have what it takes to create a epic blockbuster like the a mentioned films or will it be another green screen over priced shambles? March 2014 is the date set for the release of Noah stay tuned with The Peoples Movies for updates.
Here is the full press release confirming Russell Crowe in Noah.
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
SOURCE Collider
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