Brad Pitt, Aronofsky Project Back On Track

[Monday, June 10th, 2002]
The Brad Pitt sci-fi epic "The Fountain" (aka "The Last Man"), is back on track after a change of co-financiers, reports Variety.

Fox-based New Regency, replaces Australia's Village Roadshow Pictures. The companies are currently trying to determine a start date for the production, budgeted north of $70 million.

Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream," "Pi") will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ari Handel. Plot details have been kept tightly under wraps.

Aronofsky's road toward production on this picture has been a rocky one.

Village Roadshow came aboard last year, when the film was targeted for a fall 2001 start and a fall 2002 release. The company then pushed its production target to this summer, however, to accommodate Warners' budget concerns, as well as co-star Cate Blanchett's pregnancy.

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