Darren Aronofsky and Brad Pitt Team Up to Hunt a Tiger

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/11/darren-aronofsky-and-brad-pitt-team-up-to-hunt-a-tiger/

Darren Aronofsky is still willing to work with Brad Pitt. Despite the fact that their collaboration on The Fountain went south, with Pitt departing before production began and Aronofsky eventually downscaling and recasting the movie. And despite the fact that Pitt also bailed on The Fighter, before Aronofsky left that movie and David O. Russell took over.


Now the pair are both attached to a Focus Features film called The Tiger, which is based on a forthcoming book called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The film is being groomed as a starring project for Pitt, and Aronofsky is attached to direct.


Variety and Deadline both have details, the most significant of which is that Guillermo Arriaga will write the script. He wrote Babel, which was a Pitt project in 2006.


John Valiant’s book is nonfiction, and Variety describes the feature pitch like so:

[The Tiger] takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the tigers’ habitat — and one tiger turns on the intruders. With townspeople being tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservationist game warden must face down the tiger. It is a fight that only one of them can win.

You might be waiting for comparisons to The Ghost and the Darkness to crop up, and yeah, there certainly seems to be a parallel. But the timeline of The Tiger is modern — the meat of the tale takes place in the late ’90s — and the setting is the Siberian frontier. More info from Amazon:

When Yuri Trush was called in to investigate an attack by a Siberian tiger, what he found was unlike anything he’d ever encountered. Nothing remained of the victim but stumps of bone protruding from his boots. Even more chilling was the evidence that this attack had been carefully orchestrated, as if the tiger was seeking revenge. Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tiger’s history, motives, and unique method of attack—until their harrowing final encounter.

 

[bullets]

Also thought of Ghost and the Darkness and also that time Pitt fought a grizzly bear..

Hopefully this doesn't fall through.

 

[Ajendo]

should be good. The ghost is the one with the lions and that guy from momento right?

 

[King K]

should be good. The ghost is the one with the lions and that guy from momento right?

Ghost in the Darkness had lions and stared Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, no one from Memento. Pitt battled 2 bears in Legends of the Fall

 

[Crockett]

Darren Aronofsky's Next to Be "Tiger" with Brad Pitt? Not "Wolverine 2"?
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/07...-be-the-tiger-with-brad-pitt-not-wolverine-2/

Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros) confirmed in an interview that location scouting on The Tiger, Aronofsky’s previously annouced adaptation of John Valiant’s The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, will commence in November, and that filming will begin early next year. Unless Fox and Warner Bros. are willing to wait around for Aronofsky to finish work on The Tiger—which is an unlikely prospect any way you look at it—I think we can expect to see those projects fast-tracked to other directors in the very near future.




The interview comes from Quien, translated via The Playlist. Said Arriaga: “These days I’m traveling to New York to lend clarity to the last detail, in November would be doing a tour of Siberia to check locations.”
The Playlist also gathers from the interview that Angelina Jolie has been cast in the film, but let’s put that rumor to bed right now. Jolie is mentioned off-handedly in the piece in reference to her marriage with Brad Pitt, not (as far as I can tell) because she’s starring in it. Reading an English translation of the interview, I can see why there would be some confusion on the matter.

Anyway I really do hope that Aronofsky does make this movie, with Brad Pitt nonetheless since he's dying to work with him.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I must say that storyline sounds rather freaky and disturbing in a national-geographic way. I'm interested.

 

[Laderlappen]

Aronofsky + Pitt sounds like a great collaboration

 

[Rac]

should be good. The ghost is the one with the lions and that guy from momento right?

It's Memento.

 

[Mr.Webs]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Aronofsky is attached, my ass will be in the seat.

 

[Wolfwood]

I say put Val Kilmer in the lead role and make it a sequel to the Ghost in the Darkness.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Sounds pretty interesting, be pretty cool if Pitt actually sticks around for this one, too