Where to watch Noah (2014)

Trivia & production notes

• Darren Aronofsky first conceived of Noah as a seventh-grade creative writing assignment, submitting a poem titled "The Dove" about the biblical figure.
• Work on the Noah script began in 2000 but was shelved when Aronofsky discovered Hallmark was already producing a similar film.
• To secure financing, Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel adapted the Noah script into a graphic novel, with the first volume published in French by Le Lombard in October 2011.
• Screenwriter John Logan was brought in to re-draft the Noah script alongside Aronofsky but received no credit in the final film.
• Christian Bale and Michael Fassbender both turned down the role of Noah due to prior commitments; Bale went on to play Moses in Ridley Scott's Exodus instead.
• Dakota Fanning was originally cast as Ila but left the project due to a scheduling conflict.
• Filming took place across multiple Icelandic locations starting July 20, 2012, and was temporarily halted by Hurricane Sandy's flooding in late October 2012.
• During a September 2012 break from filming on Long Island, Russell Crowe and a friend were rescued by the Coast Guard after kayaking for several hours.
• Industrial Light and Magic created all animals in the film using visual effects rather than real creatures, with the studio calling their work "the most complicated rendering in the company's history."
• To animate the Watchers realistically, the visual effects team studied footage from Black Swan, Aronofsky's earlier Oscar-winning film, as a reference for their movements.

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