Darren Aronofsky to direct Metallica and Lou Reed video

Award winning film director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) will direct the video for Iced Honey from the Lou Reed & Metallica album Lulu.

Lou will head to the Metallica home turf of San Francisco to shoot the clip with Aronofsky in the Bay Area.

"I have loved Darren Aronofsky since he did Pi," said Lou Reed in a statement. "I hope I can be his next Black Swan."

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich adds, "As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough….. now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, Pi. This is turning into a monumental chapter in the on-going saga entitled "Lars Ulrich…living the dream!!!"

Lulu is the first ever collaboration album between Lou Reed and Metallica. It features a set of extended songs inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind's early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.