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Nov
04
2007

AFM:  It’s Good News / Bad News For Aronofsky

Posted by Todd Brown at 5:20pm.

Posted in Film News , Drama, USA & Canada, AFM 2007.

So.  Walking by the offices of Summit Entertainment yesterday my eye was caught by a poster proclaiming a new film for director Darren Aronofsky, an enormous personal favorite. So, hurray!  Aronofsky is making a new one and it starts shooting in January.  That’s the good news.  The bad news?  It’s not Flicker or his lone Wolf and Cub film or any of the other possibilities that have been bandied about.  What it is is something titled The Wrestler, starring Nicholas Cage as a washed out WWF wrestler named Randy the Ram trying to fight his way back into the ring following a heart attack brought on by steroid use and the collapse of his personal life. 

This seems, to put it mildly, unlikely source material for an Aronofsky film.  And, frankly, the idea of Cage playing a wrestler fills me with immense dread of the existential, I think I’m about to begin a slow transformation into a cockroach variety.  I’m tempted to say this is purely Aronofsky playing up to Hollywood and trying to do a mainstream money maker to balance out the financial failure of The Fountain but considering that his own Protozoa Pictures is on board as principle production company this is not a for-hire job put on him from outside but something developed internally so here’s hoping there’s more to it than meets the eye ...

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Reader Comments

  1. The Visitor 11/04/2007 @ 8:50pm

    am not an Aronofsky fan at all, but i can see some possibilities where this film could go. for one, there’s drug use! maybe we’ll see Nicolas Cage’s character’s mind unravelling in that Requiem manner. heh.

  2. ChevalierAguila 11/04/2007 @ 11:44pm

    I can’t see Aronofsky making a Lone Wolf & Cub film that is not a tedious piece of pseudo-philosophic wankery, like all of his films. I guess that the only relief is that at least it wasn’t Paul WS Anderson, Rob Cohen, McG or some other idiot who got the rights.

  3. Swarez 11/05/2007 @ 2:15am

    *Shiiiigh*
    Cage...shudder.

  4. wisekwai 11/05/2007 @ 4:14am

    Nicolas Cage. Wrestling picture. What do you need, a roadmap?

  5. BtoFu 11/05/2007 @ 4:27am

    Hilarity abound, ensues, encroaching..

  6. Kurt Halfyard 11/05/2007 @ 5:34am

    I am an Aronofsky fan, and while I’d love to see him attempt Flicker, at the moment I’m trying to keep an open mind about the wrestling picture, maybe the whole thing will evolve into some sort of apocalyptic existential piece, a la Barton Fink.

  7. GAPS 11/05/2007 @ 9:46am

    That right there was my immediate thought. Jewish existential artist goes to hollywood, gets some funding… The timing is a bit off considering it’s films that he has under his belt, and I guess he’s not shacked up in a claustrophobic hotel (or, maybe he is. I can’t really make a call there), but otherwise it seems awfully close.

  8. fannyslacks 11/06/2007 @ 1:17am

    wallace beary.

  9. cinemainc 11/06/2007 @ 2:28pm

    Well, this is the guy who took the Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo” style and used for his own cyberpunk journey in “PI”, this one smell like Tsukamoto’s ring movie “Tokio Fist”.
    Aaron

  10. Kurt Halfyard 11/06/2007 @ 4:28pm

    I still have yet to see Tokyo Fist.  Gotta catch up with that one.

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