Aronofsky Wants to Build a MACHINE MAN

Darren Aronofsky has been the talk of Hollywood lately. With his film festival darling Black Swan ready to get a wide release and the recent announcement of him attached to direct Wolverine 2 (which I am still scratching my head over), Aronofsky has been the subject of many water-cooler discussions. Well, now he has another announcement that will sure to please sci-fi and horror geeks.  Variety is stating that his next project (not Wolverine 2 like some presumed) will be an adaptation of Machine Man.  If the name of one of Hollywood’s up-and-coming directors and thoughts of Robocop get you excited, you might want to continue reading for more info on the bizarre and creepy project.

Machine Man tells the story of “a gadget geek and engineer working at a forward-thinking tech firm who decides to systematically replace his weaker fleshy parts with high-end titanium performance upgrades of his own design. But he isn’t the only one with plans for his superior parts.”  Machine Man is based on Max Barry’s online experimental serial written as a day by day project for readers. The entire story will be published and released by Vintage Books in Spring 2011.  Mark Heyman, who wrote the screenplay for Black Swan, will return to write the screenplay as well.  Mandalay Pictures will be releasing the film. 

Beautiful and bizarre images come to mind when I think about this film.  In many ways, It kind of falls in the same family as Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Full Metal Yakuza, and Robocop.  Yet, I feel Aronofsky will certainly put his own spin on exploring the “new flesh” in the film. Now, after saying “new flesh,” I am thinking of David Cronenberg and Videodrome. Ohhh . . . this is going to be good. We will keep you updated as info becomes available.