Darren Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER And BLACK SWAN Were Supposed To Be One Movie?

MTV chatted with Darren Aronofsky who revealed that his previous movie The Wrestler and his upcoming one, BLACK SWAN (watch the trailer) at one point had a connection..

“I’ve always considered the two films companion pieces,”
“They are really connected and people will see the connections. It’s funny, because wrestling some consider the lowest art — if they would even call it art — and ballet some people consider the highest art. But what was amazing to me was how similar the performers in both of these worlds are. They both make incredible use of their bodies to express themselves.”
“At one point, way before I made ‘The Wrestler,’ I was actually developing a project that was about a love affair between a ballet dancer and a wrestler, and then it kind of split off into two movies,”
“I realized pretty quickly that taking two worlds like wrestling and ballet was much too much for one movie. So I guess my dream is that some art theater will play the films as a double feature some day.”

Interesting… The wrestling Black Swan.. or something like that. He also took the time to praise Natalie Portman‘s performance in BLACK SWAN..

“One of the best things about the film is the casting of Natalie,”
“She took the part and ran with it. I don’t know if when I was working with the writers we were consciously channeling Natalie or Natalie somehow transformed herself to the part, but they grew together.”