Gillian Flynn & Darren Aronofsky Team On Erotic Thriller Feature For Sony
EXCLUSIVE: Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and Requiem For A Dream director Darren Aronofsky are teaming up.
The pair are working on an original erotic thriller that Deadline understands is set up at Sony Pictures.
Flynn is writing the film, while Aronofsky has closed a deal to produce via his Protozoa Pictures banner. Sources told Deadline that he is also expected to direct the feature. It comes from 1.21, the company behind Austin Butler’s Elvis and Dave Franco and Alison Brie-led horror film Together.
The plot details are being kept under wraps on the project, which is in development at the studio.
It marks the first time that Flynn and Aronofsky have worked together.
Flynn is best known for writing Gone Girl, which she adapted for David Fincher to direct with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike starring. She also wrote Sharp Objects, which was turned into a limited series for HBO with Amy Adams starring, and Dark Places, which was turned into a film with Charlize Theron. She also co-wrote the movie adaptation of Widows with Steve McQueen and in 2022 said she was writing a film adaptation of The Grownup, her short story that tells the story of a con artist who used to work as a sex worker behind a fortune-telling joint. She is also writing the reimagining for Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman with Tim Burton directing that is in the works at Warner Bros.
Aronofsky is coming off the back of Caught Stealing, the Austin Butler-led crime thriller that was produced by Sony’s Columbia Pictures. His feature debut was Pi before he directed Requiem For A Dream. He followed that up with The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah, Mother! and The Whale. He also produced Jackie, White Boy Rick, The Good Nurse and documentary Some Kind of Heaven.
Deadline revealed earlier this summer that he was in early talks to direct A24 film Breakthrough with Dwayne Johnson attached to star, as well as a reboot of Cujo for Netflix. He is also producing horror film Pendulum, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor and Norman Reedus.
1.21, which was founded by Andrew Mittman, who also produces series including Netflix’s Wednesday, is producing with Kai Dolbashian and Darby Kealey as exec producers.
Flynn is repped by WME, Blue Marble Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Aronofsky is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
