Hugh Jackman In 'The Fountain' Talks

[Friday, February 27th, 2004]
Hugh Jackman could be replacing Brad Pitt in Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, according to Variety.

Pitt was up for the lead role but decided to leave the project in August 2002, reportedly unhappy with the late-in-the-game rewrite of the script, co-written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel.

Aronofsky is said to have been working diligently to shave costly set pieces from his script, which spanned 500 years at one point.

Currently not much is known about the story, which originally followed its main character on a psychological journey set in the present, but with a plotline reaching centuries into both the past and the future. Among the themes explored are love, death and immortality.

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