by Ben Travis | Published on11 11 2023. Darren Aronofsky has always been attracted to stories of extremity – whether it’s the bodily intensity of The Wrestler and The Whale, the psychological torment of Mother! and Black Swan, the religious endurance of Noah, or the actual endurance test that is Requiem For A Dream. And for his next project, he’s found something that’s set to invoke all kinds of extreme reactions – because it centers on a person who’s divisive to the nth degree. According to reports, Aronofsky is set to direct an A24 biopic of none other than Elon Musk – the controversial mega-rich Space X founder, owner of Twitter (sorry, ‘X’), former bigwig of Tesla, and more…
This thin-skinned manchild doesn’t deserve a Social Network kind of treatment. He’s not some amoral teenager turned starry-eyed manipulator. He’s a schmuck who was born wealthy, cannot take advice or handle criticism, and desperately needs everyone to like him. There was a brief window where two of his okay investments provided goodwill from science-geek progressives. That went clean out the window once his underlying personality and resulting politics became unavoidable. By the time his dumb ass bought the fascist-adjacent bird site, even the people he was banning and firing called him fragile, to his face.