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Darren Aronofsky on Making 'Noah'
How Darren Aronofsky made the biblical epic he wanted to make despite push-back from the studio and test audiences.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenDarren Aronofsky talks about how he put together the biblical epic Noah with Russell Crowe, Paramount and producer Arnon Milchan. Despite push-back from test audiences -- causing the studio to cut alternate versions -- the movie that has been released is entirely Aronofsky's. So far it's made over $100 million world-wide and he stands by it.
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Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's Noah was never going to be a Sunday School version of the famous flood. The auteur director behind Black Swan, The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream approached the biblical epic as a mystical tale of one man at the center of an apocalypse. It was by far the largest budget Aronofsky had ever worked with.
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