Two False Starts and Pitt and Aronofsky are Still ‘Hunting’ for a Project Together

If at first two tries (The Fountain, The Fighter) you don’t succeed, then try for the third time is where Darren Aronofsky is headed. I would have thought that the tenacious/stubborn Aronofsky would have dropped his working with Brad Pitt dream, but in the first major announcement at this year’s Cannes film fest, the busy until 2017 Aronofsky has teamed with Focus Features to make something out of their deal with Random House book’s film division. To be titled Hunting, this will be scripted by Guillermo Arriaga — he of course wrote for Pitt’s character in Babel.

Based on an upcoming nonfiction book by John Vaillant titled The Tiger, centers on an animal activist who must protect the small Siberian town he is in when a tiger begins attacking its inhabitants. The Hollywood Reporter mentions that “Pitt and Aronofsky, who has not yet committed to directing “Hunting,” have been developing the project under the radar since last year.”

My guess is we won’t be hearing about any more developments in this project for a little while.