Darren Aronofsky adapting & possibly directing Margaret Atwood's 'MaddAddam' for HBO
Critics may have been split, but the final numbers on Darren Aronofsky's latest film, Noah, were actually pretty good. The movie has earned $345 million worldwide, the director's most successful to date. So what is Aronofsky's next project? The lure of the small screen is callling, with a project that somewhat continues the thread Aronofsky began unraveling with Noah.
Deadline reports that Aronofsky will be adapting Margaret Atwood's "MaddAddam" via his Protozoa Pictures banner, with an eye to possibly direct it as a series on HBO. The novel follows the author's 'Oryx and Crake' and 'Year of the Flood' in a re-imagining of Earth after a horrific flood. Very Noah like.
It seems to be the mindset of Aronofsky these days to deal with these sort of themes. Both HBO and Aronofsky believe there is a good chance to give birth to a creative collaboration, with HBO inking a production deal with Aronofsky earlier this year.
No doubt we will hear a lot more from this collaboration and this project in the coming months.
