Movie Minewsweeper - The Let's Try That Again, Shall We? Edition

- Darren Aronofsky is to record a commentary track for The Fountain and release it online. I saw this at Cinematical.

- Frank Miller still believes in a Sin City 2. I wonder if he also believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. On the upside, he's now sold on 3D - after a screening of U2 3D. Does this mean The Spirit might get an extra dimension?

- Today's completely fabricated quote alleges that Tim Burton is set to direct a film about Marilyn Manson's recent divorce. At least we can cross another site off of the legitimate source list - and the first time I've ever heard of the site too. That's efficiency for you.

- Aardman are to launch their own channel on Joost. Fine - but I don't have an invite to use the service. Who's going to ask me in?

- K-Fed has landed a small role in Night Watch. How?

- Scott Sigler's Infested is to be filmed. Know the book? I don't. Any good?

- You can download the trailer to Wilson Yip's Flashpoint right now, if your right-clicker works.

- A Mister Lonely clip has turned up online. If Harmony Korine has any idea what he's doing he certainly hasn't worked out why he shouldn't be doing it.

- Luc Besson is to float EuropaCorp on the paris stock exchange. This was one of the stories I lost in the earlier Blogger meltdown.

- I still haven't stopped laughing about the Silver Surfer coin cock-up.

From The Fountain To The Flood

The Guardian's Ryan Gilbey interviewed Darren Aronofsky for a piece published on Friday. Of course, The Fountain is covered - just ahead of it's UK DVD release - but much more of the piece seems to focus on a potential future project for the director.

He wants to tell the story of Noah and is already several drafts into carving out a screenplay. Aronofsky says:

Noah was the first person to plant vineyards and drink wine and get drunk. It's there in the Bible - it was one of the first things he did when he reached land. There was some real survivor's guilt going on there. He's a dark, complicated character.

There goes that word dark again, like some guarantee of interest or quality. Complicated I'm more interested in, but dark? Whatever.

So, if Aronofsky doesn't make an end-of-the-world film from a book that sounds an awful lot like John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns, or a film about ballet, then he's likely to tackle a biblical epic. He doesn't just want an easy life, that's for sure.