'Noah' Co-Writer Ari Handel Explains (Badly) Why There Weren't Any Black People In Noah

DarrenAronofsky’sNoah,whichIloved,hadrockmonsters,armadillo-lookingdeer,horsecreatureswithscales,andacraploadofberries(seriously,thewholemoviewasbasicallypropagandaforBigBerry)butnaryablackperson(oranAsian,oraLatino,forthatmatter).Howtoexplainsuchathing?Co-screenwriterAriHandel(secondfromleft)fieldedthequestionduringaninterviewwithTheHighCalling (viaIndiewire):Fromthebeginning,wewereconcernedaboutcasting,theissueofrace.