Darren Aronofsky Trying To Land Christian Bale For ‘Noah.’ Yes Please!

Darren Aronofsky’s epic biblical disaster flick Noah looks like it really may be happening. You can’t destroy the planet in biblical proportions without a budget, and this pig is looking to cost a cool $130 million. With half of the funding secured, Aronofsky is scrambling to get another studio to put up the cheddar. How can he do that more easily? By getting an actor like Christian Bale to hop aboard.

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Vulture says the director and actor are in talks to get Christian Bale to commit to the film. So this is a different ‘in talks’ than what the term usually means – it’s more like Christian Bale is in talks to be in talks to be in Noah. Still: that’s provisionally good news, and Noah seems like a role that Bale could easily own.

Paramount, Summit and Fox (at which New Regency is based) are the three studios reportedly circling the project right now, and given the deal that Darren Aronofsky has with Fox, it seems like it shouldn’t be the most difficult sell.

But Noah is exactly the sort of movie Fox isn’t making right now, so can Aronofsky persuade the studio that some faith-based marketing would sell the film to a Passion of the Christ-sized audience? Given that he has said that this would be a very R-rated, explicit version of the story, that probably isn’t the easiest task to accomplish.

Please goodness, get this done. I love me some Aronofsky. I love me some Bale. In a post-Batman world, it’s going to be interesting to see the sort of flicks that Bale attaches himself to. Certainly he will find the studios employing the most daft grips and lightning holder guys so he can berate them into a puddle of nothingness. Hopefully Aronofsky can promise him some good verbal punching bags. Entice the man! Do it!