Darren Aronofsky's Noah Receives Luke Warm Response At World Premiere In ...
The Black Swan director joined stars Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly and Douglas Booth for the world premiere last night. Although leads Russell Crowe and Emma Watson were nowhere to be seen, the event drew in the crowds at the Pepsi Center.
Taking the stage before the show, Aronofsky warned the audience to expect the unexpected. 'It's a very, very different movie,' he said. 'Anything you're expecting, you're f***ing wrong.'
Noah stars Russell Crowe and Emma Watson (Paramount)The Hollywood Reporter reveal that after the screening there was a less than ecstatic response, with the audience applauding for about 30 seconds while remaining seated as the credits rolled.
The screening comes amid new claims that Aronofsky's project has given studio executives a major headache, with the biblical epic screened in various cuts for countless test audiences.
Crowe plays Noah in the new take on the biblical tale (Paramount)A new report in the New Yorker claims that one abandoned cut opened with a montage of religious images and ended with a Christian rock song, in an attempt to appeal to the religious audiences much like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ which took a massive $611m worldwide in 2004 after evangelicals flocked to see it.
The director has stated that he has won the battle to screen his own version after around six alternate cuts failed to win over the hoped-for target audiences. It's claimed Aronofsky's final edit features a segment on Darwinian evolution as well as what the director describes as 'a huge [environmental] statement in the film ... about the coming flood from global warming'.
Darren Aronofsky's movie has come under criticism (WENN)'Noah is the least biblical biblical film ever made,' Aronofsky is quoted as saying in the New Yorker piece. 'I don't give a f**k about the test scores! My films are outside the scores. Ten men in a room trying to come up with their favourite ice cream are going to agree on vanilla. I'm the Rocky Road guy.'
Paramount in turn last week added a disclaimer to the film informing viewers that the film's plot had remained faithful to the 'essence, values, and integrity' of the story of Noah, but that filmmakers had been given 'artistic license.'
Noah is released in the UK on April 4.
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