Darren Aronofsky Teaming With Jared Leto & Blumhouse For His Supernatural Film ‘Adrift’

In case you luckily managed to block all memory of the Academy Award-winning 2016 film “Suicide Squad,” and all its behind-the-scenes drama, Jared Leto notoriously spent much of his method acting giving increasingly weird and perverse gifts to his castmates. These allegedly included everything from anal beads and used condoms, to pig carcasses and dead rats.

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau has landed the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser in an Untitled film for A24 that Darren Aronofsky is on board to direct. Sources also say Samantha Morton and Sadie Sink are in negotiations to join cast. Deadline first reported last month that Aronofsky was making this his first film since Paramount’s Mother and had found his star in Fraser.

Also Read: Jared Leto and Darren Aronofsky Team for Ghost Story 'Adrift' With Jason Blum to ProduceThis is Leto’s first nomination at the Globes since way back in 2014 when he won the Globe and the Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club.” And though he’s taken his fair share of risks in his career, he explained that this one in “The Little Things” — where at times he looks unrecognizable — really stretched him.“When you put on a nose and teeth and eyes and a walk and talk and throw it all together you

Adrift.The pair first worked together 20 years ago on Requiem for A Dream, which earned Leto’s co-star Ellen Burstyn an Oscar nomination.Adrift will be based on a short story of the same name by Koji Suzuki, who wrote The Ring.Per Flickering Myth, the film will be set in the sea, “where a fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call.“A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why the rest of his more experienced crew

There are plenty of great filmmaking duos in Hollywood, pairs like Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker or Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz. In his two decades working in film, some of Darren Aronofsky‘s best movies have been made in collaboration with cinematographer Matthew Libatique.

So much of writer-director John Lee Hancock’s psychological cop thriller, “The Little Things,” seems recognizable and pre-ordained on the surface. The drama offers the trope of a grizzled veteran cop (Denzel Washington) conflicting with a talented younger detective who’s made the grade (Rami Malek), the way they clash, break balls, their various obsessions, a haunted past, and a quirky, alleged serial killer (Jared Leto), not afraid to tease and taunt the police.

EXCLUSIVE: Even as the Sundance deals look to be heating up, it looks 2021 has its first major sale on the horizon. While a deal has not closed yet, We are hearing MGM is in exclusive negotiations for the supernatural thriller Adrift with Jared Leto attached to star and Darren Aronofsky on board to direct.

Morbius and Suicide Squad star Jared Leto has lined up his next movie. The actor is set to reunite with director Darren Aronofsky for upcoming chiller Adrift, which is based on a short story by The Ring author Koji Suzuki.

Originally, Jared Leto’s debut in the world of Marvel superheroes, in Sony’s upcoming film, “Morbius,” was supposed to happen last summer. Unfortunately, COVID-19 happened and the film has faced multiple delays, now putting the release in January 2022.

Also Read: Jared Leto's 'Morbius' Delayed to Fall 2021Aronofsky and Luke Dawson will write the screenplay, and Leto along with Emma Ludbrook will also produce through Leto’s company Paradox.

EXCLUSIVE: Twenty years after helping launch each other’s film careers with Requiem For A Dream, Jared Leto and Darren Aronofsky look to have found a project to reteam on. Sources tell Deadline one of 2021 first big packages is coming together as Leto has attached himself to star in Adrift with Aronofsky on board to direct. Jason Blum will produce through his Blumhouse Proudctions along with Leto and Emma Ludbrook via Leto’s production company Paradox as will Carla Hacken.

Jared Leto may have won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in the 2013 drama “Dallas Buyers Club”, but that wasn’t enough to get him to watch the movie.

Jared Leto's Academy Award is MIA. On Tuesday's episode of, the 49-year-old actor revealed that the Best Supporting Actor statuette he won in 2014 for his role in has been missing for years.«I found out that it's been missing for, like, three years.

Joker star and Hollywood heartthrob Jared Leto recently revealed that he didn’t even know about the Coronavirus pandemic until much later! The news of the pandemic reportedly reached the actor late as he was taking part in a two-week “silent meditation” getaway when the United States was facing the first lockdown after coronavirus took its toll on countless lives.  During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jared Leto said “When I went away, there were about 150 cases,” the

You remember that time nearly a year ago when the coronavirus was just a blip on everyone’s radar right before it became a massive, global heath crisis?

Back in March 2020, the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic escalated quickly, as several cities and state were put under immediate quarantine orders to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. But no one was more shocked than Jared Leto, who went away on a 12-day silent mediation retreat only to return to what felt like “the zombie apocalypse.” On Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Leto opened up to Jimmy Fallon about his unique experience finding out about the virus lockdown.

So much of writer-director John Lee Hancock’s psychological cop thriller, “The Little Things,” seems recognizable and pre-ordained on the surface. The drama offers the trope of a grizzled veteran cop (Denzel Washington) conflicting with a talented younger detective who’s made the grade (Rami Malek), the way they clash, break balls, their various obsessions, a haunted past, and a quirky, alleged serial killer (Jared Leto), not afraid to tease and taunt the police.

John Lee Hancock’s hunt for a serial killer script The Little Things drew a killer cast of Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. In Deadline’s Contenders Film panel for the Warner Bros drama that premieres January 29, Hancock explains why it took nearly 30 years to make a movie he wrote when he had just completed the Clint Eastwood-directed Kevin Costner-starrer A Perfect World — ostensibly for Eastwood to direct it.

Denzel Washington was “energized” making The Little Things alongside Rami Malek and Jared Leto.The actor portrays Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon in the psychological crime thriller and he admitted working with the two younger fellow Oscar winners made him up his game on set.“It absolutely energized me, having those two on the film,” he told the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, “I’m like, ‘Uh-oh. I’d better read the script’.

Jared Leto‘s new Spider-Man spin-off Morbius has been delayed again, only weeks after an initial release date change.The comic book thriller, focusing on the notorious Spider-Man villain, was originally due to be released in July 2020.Coronavirus-related delays then pushed it back to March 19 this year.