Darren Aronofsky Talks About ‘The Fountain’ Re-assembly

I am in love with the films of Darren Aronofsky. Â  ‘The Fountain’ was my favorite movie of 2006, and some interesting news came out of Mr. Aronofsky’s interview with MTV. Â  Somewhere down the road, he wants to go back in and “re-assemble” the film using. Â  First Showing caught up with Aronofsky and asked him to expand on this information.

“I’m not re-cutting it, I’m doing a bit of — I’d call it more of a redux — well, I don’t even know what that word means for goodness sake,” Aronofsky said.

“It’s something more for fans. I worked on the film for 6 years and it went through a lot of versions. And there was one version that was much closer to one of the scripts that we had. And we kind of chose between which way we would go with it and they both are kind of interesting. So I was always curious for myself to see what that alternative version would be. And we cut it actually recently, it’s done. I would have to get Warner Brothers to support it and get it out there.”

Unfortunately, ‘The Fountain’ wasn’t much of a box office darling for Warner Bros., so any chance of them putting money behind a rerelease of the film on DVD is pretty much nil.

Aronofsky did say that, “at some point, hopefully, there’ll be enough of a demand that they’ll let me go in and do it. But we got to get there.”

He went on to say, “It’s very similar but it’s looking at a few things in a few different ways and answers a few questions for people and raises some new questions in other ways.”

In the interview with MTV, Aronofsky said that the re-assembly would contain unused footage from the first edit of the film and would be a complicated project on a number of levels.

What do you think? Â  Were you a fan of ‘The Fountain’? Â  Are you interested in seeing a re-edited version of the film? Â  Why do you think it did so poorely at the box office? Â  Let us know by commenting below!

Sources: MTV, First Showing