Adrift: Leto & Aronofsky Reuniting on Jason Blum-Produced Project
Requiem for a Dream alums Jared Leto (
Dallas Buyers Club,
Black Swan,
Adrift, according to Deadline, with Jason Blum (
Get Out,
BlacKkKlansman,
Whiplash) attached to produce. Leto will star in the feature with Aronofsky set to direct and co-write.
Ring, and published in the short story collection
Dark Water. The story is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but he soon discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a “Ghost Ship.”
Jared Leto to Star in Blumhouse Productions Adrift With Darren Aronofsky Directing
The 2000 film
Deadline confirming that the pair are reuniting for the new film
Adrift. Much like how
Requiem fully embraced the unsettling subject matter to serve as a thriller, though kept its story rooted in real-world horrors of addiction to a variety of substances,
Adrift sounds as though it will once again lean into the realm of psychological horrors, a realm which Aronofsky has proven a mastery over.
Deadline describes the film, The story is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but he soon discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a Ghost Ship. ”
Want to feel old? This year marks 21 years since
Requiem For A Dream came out. And, as if to celebrate that fact, writer/director Darren Aronofsky and star Jared Leto are looking to reunite for a creepy new film called
Adrift.
The film will be based on a short story by Koji Suzuki, who wrote the novel that spawned
The Ring. Aronofsky and Luke Dawson are writing the script, with the idea coming from Leto and producing partner Emma Ludbrook, who chased the rights for 10 years. The story is set in the dead calm of the open sea, where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew members call it a Ghost Ship.