Darren Aronofsky’s next film will star Jennifer Lawrence

Darren Aronofsky’s next film will star Jennifer Lawrence January 11, 2016

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We’re fans of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah here at FilmChat, and indeed we’ve been fans of Aronofsky going all the way back to his first feature film π. (Click here to read the phone interview I did with him in 1998. I interviewed him again in 2014.)

So we’ve been curious as to how Aronofsky would follow up his groundbreaking Bible epic. He’s producing a number of things, but what would he direct next?

This morning, we got our answer: Paramount, the studio behind Noah, confirmed the rumour that Aronofsky’s next film will star Jennifer Lawrence — and it said the currently untitled film will be about “a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.”

It will be interesting to see if the new film has any parallels to Noah, or if it sheds any light on that film. Certainly Noah has a lot in common with the five films Aronofsky made before that — see here for an illustrated list of almost two dozen overlaps — so it stands to reason that it could have a lot in common with his later works, too.

Just for fun, here are a few other noteworthy Bible films, along with the films that their directors made right after their foray into the Bible-movie genre:

The Ten Commandments (1956) — directed by Cecil B. DeMille — his last film, but it did follow Samson and Delilah (1949) and the circus movie The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which involved a large caravan à la the migrating Hebrews.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) — directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini — followed by Hawks and Sparrows (1966), in which the girl who played an angel in the earlier film once again appears in an angel costume, but more irreverently.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) — directed by Martin Scorsese — followed by Goodfellas (1990), which admittedly doesn’t seem on the surface to have a lot of overlap with the earlier film; a closer link could be made to Cape Fear (1991), in which the villain is something of a religious fanatic (a dig at Last Temptation’s protestors?).

The Passion of the Christ (2004) — directed by Mel Gibson — followed by Apocalypto (2006), which was similarly violent and consisted entirely of subtitled dialogue.

The Nativity Story (2006) — directed by Catherine Hardwicke — followed by Twilight (2008), which was similarly about a teenaged girl’s encounter with the supernatural.

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) — directed by Ridley Scott — followed by The Martian (2015), which was similarly shot in Wadi Rum, in Jordan.

Are there any other interesting duos like these? If so, let me know in the comments.


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