Darren Aronofsky on possible "The Fountain" reassembly

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Dodging passing trays of finger foods on the other side of the room was Darren Aronofsky, whose ferocious new movie, “The Wrestler,” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival two months ago, and has just been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Male Lead (the back-to-stay Mickey Rourke). Aronofsky is already mulling his next project, he said - and at some point down the road, he’d like to do a kind of reassembly of his last film, “The Fountain,” which has become a sci-fi cult hit on DVD. “It wouldn’t be a ‘director’s cut,’” he said — more like an alternate story told with the addition of unused footage from the first go-round. This would be a complicated project on a couple of levels, though, and it’s at least a few years away.
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http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/12/04/mickey-rourke-and-darren-aronofsky-party-people-by-kurt-loder/

Would be pretty interesting if it happens
 
I love it as is, but whatever, if he does it better, that's fine. Does it worse, well, I still have the original.
 
Regardless of my opinion of that film (
terrible.
), I think this is a dumb move. The original project totally derailed this guy's career after flying high on Oscar nominations for Requiem. Why would anyone want to jump back in that quagmire?
 
theBishop said:
Regardless of my opinion of that film (
terrible.
), I think this is a dumb move. The original project totally derailed this guy's career after flying high on Oscar nominations for Requiem. Why would anyone want to jump back in that quagmire?
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stfu! he's a maverick! I'm really excited to see his latest film, but god knows when it's gonna be showing here. :\

Also, I support this, but doubt it'll happen. he had to put out a commentary track through bit torrent for this film for fucks sake.
 
Rindain said:
I wonder what he hopes to add to the film artistically by reshuffling? Try to make it easier to "get"?
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I'd love to see what he does with a reshuffling of The Fountain. It's one of my favorite movies ever, and I'd love to see what a new edit is like. It would be interesting to see if the themes and message remain the same.
 
i know he said it wouldn't be a director's cut, but i would love to see a different edit of the movie.

i could see it's potential, but i just couldn't appreciate the final film. anything that could change that, i would welcome.
 
Heh I just watched The Fountain for the first time a couple of hours ago, great movie.

I thought that he was doing Robocop next.
 
The movie's awesome as is. Focus on new projects.

diunxx said:
I thought that he was doing Robocop next.
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He is. The story doesn't dispute that.

theBishop said:
Regardless of my opinion of that film (
terrible.
), I think this is a dumb move. The original project totally derailed this guy's career after flying high on Oscar nominations for Requiem. Why would anyone want to jump back in that quagmire?
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You mean the ONE nomination that Ellen Burstyn got?
 
he would be trying to make it more accessible. its hard to do that when a majority of the people who see the movie go "wtf"

fuckit, its a great movie and go make robocop
 
theBishop said:
Regardless of my opinion of that film (
terrible.
), I think this is a dumb move. The original project totally derailed this guy's career after flying high on Oscar nominations for Requiem. Why would anyone want to jump back in that quagmire?
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Wow, I guess you never fight for what you believe in? At the first sign of trouble you hit the road? After losing his studio backing, money, sets, and actors, the guy fucking soldiered on to make this movie. It's called being passionate, being tenacious, having the courage to proceed when everyone else is calling your project a failure.

This movie did not "derail" his career. Do you really think the man described above cares about his career being derailed? The guy cares about HIS work and isn't willing to compromise for something petty like the idea of a "career."
 
I like the movie the way it is. I was trying to follow it like a sci-fi movie at first and was one of the people that thought the main characters were immortal, mainly because of the trailers. But I now appreciate it for what it is. I hope he doesn't change it just to explain to the audience what'sa going on. It's one of the only love stories I can tolerate nowadays.
 
RSTEIN said:
Wow, I guess you never fight for what you believe in? At the first sign of trouble you hit the road? After losing his studio backing, money, sets, and actors, the guy fucking soldiered on to make this movie. It's called being passionate, being tenacious, having the courage to proceed when everyone else is calling your project a failure.

This movie did not "derail" his career. Do you really think the man described above cares about his career being derailed? The guy cares about HIS work and isn't willing to compromise for something petty like the idea of a "career."
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You are my new favorite poster.
 
RSTEIN said:
Wow, I guess you never fight for what you believe in? At the first sign of trouble you hit the road? After losing his studio backing, money, sets, and actors, the guy fucking soldiered on to make this movie. It's called being passionate, being tenacious, having the courage to proceed when everyone else is calling your project a failure.

This movie did not "derail" his career. Do you really think the man described above cares about his career being derailed? The guy cares about HIS work and isn't willing to compromise for something petty like the idea of a "career."
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You're 100% right. Aronofsky persevered. He overcame great hardship to complete and release his film. It took 6 years, but he finally did it.

So what possible justification is there for RE-DOING IT!

Did Mandela get out of prison, and go "aww shit man. Just give me 5 more years."

?
 
theBishop said:
You're 100% right. Aronofsky persevered. He overcame great hardship to complete and release his film. It took 6 years, but he finally did it.

So what possible justification is there for RE-DOING IT!

Did Mandela get out of prison, and go "aww shit man. Just give me 5 more years."

?
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How is doing a different cut of a movie that's already been filmed similar to someone getting out of prison and asking to go back in for five more years?

Oh rite he gun torturr himself wif dat shitty stury again lulz

He's obviously proud of the movie he made and he just threw this out there as a potential idea for something to do in the future. You don't seem to like the film at all so why do you care at all what he does with it?
 
Tim-E said:
How is doing a different cut of a movie that's already been filmed similar to someone getting out of prison and asking to go back in for five more years?

Oh rite he gun torturr himself wif dat shitty stury again lulz

He's obviously proud of the movie he made and he just threw this out there as a potential idea for something to do in the future. You don't seem to like the film at all so why do you care at all what he does with it?
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That's funny. I didn't see a Pi redo. Or a Requiem redo. Are you suggesting he was so ashamed of those films they weren't deserving of a revisiting? Nonsense.
 
theBishop said:
That's funny. I didn't see a Pi redo. Or a Requiem redo. Are you suggesting he was so ashamed of those films they weren't deserving of a revisiting? Nonsense.
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Or maybe he just has a lot of unused footage from the Fountain? The story's pretty complicated, so there's a lot that could be done in terms of making an alternate cut to the film. He said this simply isn't a director's cut. Tell me how you could make an alternate cut out of Requiem for a Dream with tons of alternate footage and expanding stories and have it feel like a substantial addition to the film? It would be a fucking director's cut. Like any of the director's cuts you see at a DVD shop that say "WITH TEN MINUTES OF NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE!!!!11" on the cover. Neither of those movies are similar in any way to the Fountain.
 
I remember a lot of critics being surprised The Fountain was only 90 minutes long, because they were expecting it to be 2+ hrs, so I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff he had to cut out. Should be interesting, if nothing else. I hope he does it.
 
Aronofsky has yet to disappoint me, so I would love to see something like this. As it is, The Fountain is probably one of my favorite films of all time. The way the story plays out, I could really see an alternate take being something that actually enhances the original's storyline instead of feeling like The Fountain 1.5.
 
Love, love, motherfucking love this movie. The soundtrack is absolutely perfect. I think it resonated so well with me due to the visual style. Its almost something that I would day dream about.
 
I still can't believe they're remaking Robocop. Let's remake The Breakfast Club while were at it, or Unforgiven, that's a few years old now, it needs more Will Smith.
 
Jill Sandwich said:
I still can't believe they're remaking Robocop. Let's remake The Breakfast Club while were at it, or Unforgiven, that's a few years old now, it needs more Will Smith.
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Is Batman: The Dark Knight a remake of Batman Returns?
 
Jill Sandwich said:
I still can't believe they're remaking Robocop. Let's remake The Breakfast Club while were at it, or Unforgiven, that's a few years old now, it needs more Will Smith.
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You missed Wild Wild West?
 
I really wanted to like this film after reading so many positive opinion's in the official thread. Unfortunately I was severely let down. :( I loved the soundtrack, but I felt absolutely no empathy for Hugh's character and just couldn't get into the story.
 
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