News: Darren Aronofsky

Since being acknowledged as some kind of directorial genius with 1998’s Pi, Aronofsky has only managed to get two more films to the screen – 2000’s oddball Requiem for a Dream, and this week’s equally unusual The Fountain. The Fountain itself almost never made it, after a much-troubled shoot, and umpteen other projects have fallen by the wayside.

As such it should come as no surprise that he’s got no definite directorial projects in the pipeline – he is, however, currently peening an adaptation of Lone Wolf and Cub, the cult Japanese manga series about a rogue samurai single father. It has already made it to the big screen as Shogun Assassin in 1980 – notably featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill – although that was merely a re-edit of the first two of a trilogy of Japanese films made from the comics in the early 1970s. A proper big screen adaptation could prove interesting, especially with someone like Aronofsky on writing duties.