Put on your best neck fabrics and read this: More than three years after the launch of your hot mess Mother! and a tabloid tabloid novel, Darren Aronofsky took advantage of the TLC cue and chose The whale as your next movie. Deadline reports that Aronofsky will direct cowboy hat icon Brendan Fraser in the lead role, with MacArthur-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter adapting his provocative play for the screens, which originally had an off-Broadway screening in 2012. The whale, according to its official theater website, it revolves around a “six hundred pound inmate” (Fraser) who lives in rural Idaho who “hides in his apartment eating to death”. However, he desperately tries to change his self-destructive behavior “to reconnect with his daughter a long time ago”, which he discovers has grown up to be “a cruelly sharp and extremely unhappy teenager”. (Does anyone know if Elsie Fisher is available?) “This story is deeply personal and I am very grateful to have the chance to reach a wider audience,” Hunter told Deadline in a statement. “I’ve been a fan of Darren since I saw Requiem for a dream when I was a freshman in college writing my first plays, and I am very grateful that he is bringing his unique talent and vision to this film. ”From his openness to God’s ears.