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Human Nature #1 (variant cover) (2025)

Art by: Kent William

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Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller narrates this cinematic adaptation of Robert Macfarlane's bestselling book, UNDERLAND.

The documentary voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes to explore the world beneath our feet. One not of fear and darkness, but rather of knowledge and wonder that can be found nowhere else. Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe.

UNDERLAND dives deep into the Earth to present a groundbreaking vision for rethinking our lives on this fragile surface.

A film by Robert Petit Produced by Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Lauren Greenwood, Jessica Harrop Narrated by Sandra Hüller Based on the book “Underland” by Robert Macfarlane

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356 - The Fountain

After an indie one-two punch of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky was riding high as one of the major emerging directors at the turn of the century. For his next film, he would graduate to big budget studio fare with The Fountain, an ambitious and era-spanning science fiction tale of love and death. The scaled-down version that reached 2006 cinemas starred Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and remains a love-it-or-hate-it head-scratcher that nevertheless fits perfectly within Aronofsky's continued themes of the body and soul.

This episode, we talk about all that went down with the canceled version of the film set to star Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. We also talk where we stand with Aronofsky's work pre-Caught Stealing, Jackman breaking away from Wolverine, and our deep affection for Clint Mansell's score.

Topics also include Eddington, tree sap, and Donna Murphy doing science.

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The Fountain - Darren Aronofsky (2006)

Poster Design by Ise Ananphada.

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Darren Aronofsky’s - yes, the filmmaker behind such acclaimed works as Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Mother! - will make his novel debut with horror-adventure book for kids.

Monster Club will be published in hardcover, e-book, and audio book on September 13 via Harper Kids. Aronofsky co-wrote the 352-page book with frequent collaborator Ari Handel. It features art by Ronald Kurniawan.

Monster Club is the first book in a planned series for middle school-aged readers. Read the synopsis below.

From the award-winning screenwriter-director Darren Aronofsky and his screenwriting partner, Ari Handel, comes Monster Club. Their debut novel is the first book in a thrilling, new adventure series about growing up, letting go, and facing down your monsters.

Like almost everything in eleven-year-old Eric “Doodles” King’s life, King’s Wonderland—the amusement park his great-great grandfather founded—was seriously damaged when a hurricane hit his beloved Coney Island neighborhood. Now hungry property developers are circling the wreckage of the once-awesome King’s Wonderland, and Eric’s family is falling apart from the threat of losing it all.

If it weren’t for Monster Club—the epic roleplaying game that Eric and his friends created—Eric’s life would be pretty terrible. Drawing his favorite monster battling with his best friends’ creations is the one thing that still gets Eric excited. So when his friends start to think of Monster Club as a kid’s game and get more interested in other things, Eric just can’t deal. But then Eric happens across a long-lost vial of magic ink that brings their monster drawings to life, and suddenly, Monster Club isn’t just for fun anymore.

The monsters Eric and his friends created are wreaking havoc across Coney, and it’s on the Monster Club to save their city, the amusement park, and maybe, just maybe, Eric’s family, too. It’s a hilarious, heartfelt adventure from the creative minds of Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel that fans of Last Kids on Earth and Spy School are sure to love.

Pre-order Monster Club by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel.

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From @darrenaronofsky on Instagram:

SUPER excited to reveal the cover of my new middle school book MONSTER CLUB based sort of on my own middle school days back in mark twain middle school in coney island brooklyn. YES you read that right! yours truly the filmmaker behind requiem and mother! wrote a book for kids! don’t worry moms and dads i got a few different flavors up my sleeves. this is a story i’ve been dying to tell you for a long time. back in the day my best friend eric and i dreamed up this thing monster club. now many eons later i added some magic, a lot of fiction, the loyalty of the MBP and spun a tale with my dear friend Ari.

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Noah (Darren Aronofsky, 2014).

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Noah (2014)