Venice Magazine Interview
An interview with Aronofsky from the February 2009 issue of Venice Magazine. There are a few questions about RoboCop, the Noah project and the “director’s cut” of The Fountain near the end of the interview.
RoboCop:
We’re developing a script [on Robocop], but we’ve got a long way to go. We’re also developing a few other ideas. I don’t have anything that’s set in stone, that’s ready to go, but I’m working on a lot of stuff, and I really want to get back to work.
Noah’s Ark:
Yeah, [Noah’s Ark is] a dream project that we’ve been working on, and we’re probably going to do a graphic novel first. We’re getting that off the ground, and hopefully someone will give me the money to do it. We’ll see. It’s complicated.
The Fountain Director’s Cut:
There’s some new stuff, but, no it’s all footage I have. I wouldn’t be able to recreate stuff. But we shot it a lot of different ways, and there were a lot of different choices, and I think the version that’s out there is definitive, it’s the version I wanted out there. But this is another kind of version of it that has sort of haunted me. I don’t know if one supersedes the other, but I think fans of the film would appreciate it, so that’s why I’ll put it out there.