Christian Bale Won’t Be Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah;’ Michael Fassbender Next In Line?
Here’s the trade-off for two new Terrence Malick movies going into production withChristian Balein 2012: the actor now won’t have time to star inDarren Aronofsky’sNoah. Bale was never officially cast, but we’ve known since this summer that he was the actor Darren Aronofskyreally wanted to leadthe cast of hisbig event-filmretelling of the biblical story.
With Bale set to do two Malick films in 2012, however, he’s well out of the running forNoah. There is a very good second choice on the horizon, however:Michael Fassbender, who despite being one of the most wanted actors around right now, has a relatively open schedule for 2012.
Deadlinewas first up with the news that Bale wouldn’t be able to doNoah, butVarietybrings a lot more info to the table, including the possible casting of Fassbender.
The trade says that Fassbender hasn’t been offered the role at this point, but that he’s talked about it with Aronofsky. Fassbender also happens to have a relatively open schedule, as he’s only locked down a role in Steve McQueen’sTwelve Years a Slaveat this point. He was going to shootLondongradearly next year. That one is delayed, however, with Fox calling director Rupert Wyatt back to get aPlanet of the Apessequel going as quickly as possible. Producers ofLondongradare going to wait for Wyatt to free up again rather than finding a different director.
So: Fassbender could end up going from Magneto to NC-17 sex addict to classic Biblical character, all within the span of a couple years. Aren’t the movies wonderful?
Noahwas without a backer for some time, but New Regency agreed to finance it in part, and then Paramount signed on tocomplete the financing and distribution package. The studio likes Noah because it is both a tentpole and a film with global story recognition. Even though I suspect that what Darren Aronofsky will deliver is a version of Noah’s story that won’t be quite what some people are used to.
Aronofsky said of the film earlier this year,
“I don’t think it’s a very religious story… I think it’s a great fable that’s part of so many different religions and spiritual practices. I just think it’s a great story that’s never been on film.” … “He’s a dark, complicated character. The tragedies we perform on each other are so well reported. Quite clearly, the planet is dying, and we are dying on it.”
you’re able to get a look at some designs for the movievia pages from the graphic novel treatment of the script, which has already been published in Europe.
