UPDATE: A source close to the project tells me Aronofsky is only producing.
EARLIER: It’s hard to know what’s next for Darren Aronofsky. He currently has four projects brewing in several stages of development. There’s that A24 film, “Breakthrough,” with Dwayne Johnson attached to star, a reboot of “Cujo” for Netflix, and an Elon Musk biopic, also with A24. That fourth project was just announced.
Aronofsky is teaming up with author Gillian Flynn on an untitled erotic thriller that’s set up at Sony Pictures. Flynn is writing the film, while Aronofsky has closed a deal to direct. Plot details are being kept under wraps on the project.
Flynn, who wrote Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” not to mention adapted her own “Gone Girl” for David Fincher, has had several of her novels brought for the screen, including “Dark Places,” and HBO’s “Sharp Objects.” She is also writing Tim Burton’s “reimagining” of “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” over at Warner Bros.
Aronofsky is coming off “Caught Stealing,” a nastily entertaining thriller starring Austin Butler, which sadly underperformed in the late summer, and that’s despite good reviews. His feature debut was “Pi,” and he’s gone on to direct such noteworthy films as “Requiem for a Dream,” “The Wrestler,” “Black Swan,” and “Mother!”