Just how will Darren Aronofsky follow The Fountain? One possible project is the freshly announced Black Flies, a medical drama at Paramount.
Aronofsky is attached to direct the adaptation of Shannon Burke’s novel, which sees a young ambulance tech in New York whose big dream is to attend medical school. But during his service with the wheeled treatment unit, he finds that life is full of problems and misadventures, as his mentor is so numbed by the job that he starts making crucial mistakes.
Sopranos writer/producer Todd Kessler will write the adaptation, but there’s no word on when – or if – it will go into production.