If I were a fortune teller, I’d say that writing this story is pointless, as Darren Aronofsky is one of those directors who loves to sign up for movies and then leave them again, so the fact he’s agreed to shoot a movie that’s at least two years from going into production means there’s a damn good chance he’ll have left long before filming begins. However as things stand, The Wrestler filmmaker has signed up to make Machine Man, based on Max Barry’s unfinished novel.
THR reports that Aronofksy will now work with his Black Swan co-writer, Mark Heyman, to turn the partial manuscript into a workable screenplay, with the hope that it’ll be ready to shoot once he’s finished work on Wolverine 2 (it’s worth noting though, that despite it being generally accepted that he’ll make the X-Men movie, he’s yet to close a deal on the flick).
Machine Man, which Max Barry is publishing one page per day online and which will be collected together as a novel next year, is about a gadget geek and engineer at a forward thinking tech firm who is tired of going through life average and unnoticed and is also obsessed with his own self improvement. He decides to replace his weak, fleshy parts with high-end titanium performance upgrades of his own design, but then discovers other entities have designs on him for their own motives.