Batman: Year One was supposed to be Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky's, big superhero project. Unfortunately the project got scrapped in favor of Nolan's Batman Begins. But new concept art shows the Lincoln Continental Batmobile that never was. UPDATED.

This was a year of wild surprises and baffling mysteries. Pop culture threw us some curve-balls, and we didn't see them coming. Except when we did. Our attempts to predict the future had about a 50 percent success rate, in the face of crazy rumors and even crazier facts. For example, how did you like that Spider-Man…

Time to rename Darren Aronofsky's NOAH to Nightmare Boat. The first ever image from inside Noah's Ark on Aronofsky's movie about the time God said, "Fuck it, let's flood the Earth and put two of every animal in a wooden ship," is out. So what's in Noah's Ark? Just a crap load of snakes. So many snakes. It's truly a boat …

The very first image of Russell Crowe as Darren Aronofsky's Noah is out, and it is hilarious. Playing the beloved bible school character Noah, this furst look at Crowe in his Noah gear has us scratching our heads. We love Aronofsky, but we're not completely sure we're ready for a hot, gritty Noah with a crap load of…

Max Barry blew our minds with his dystopian future novel Jennifer Government, and now he's back with Machine Man, a cyborg novel that he premiered in a different form on his website last year. Darren Aronofsky is already attached to direct the movie version.

Darren Aronofsky and Michael Chabon working together. Doesn't that just give you chills? We're beyond excited about the recently announced news that Aronofsky will be directing the pilot of HBO series Hobgoblin, about magicians who fight Hitler!

Darren Aronofsky wants to do an "edgy re-telling" of the tale of Noah's ark. The first step? Getting Christian Bale to play the titular Noah.

We're almost elated director Darren Aronofsky passed on the second Wolverine movie, because his back-up project, Human Nature, sounds fascinating. Who doesn't want to see a Aronofsky future where human beings are the lap-dogs for an alien species?

Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky won't get to try his hand at directing a big superhero movie after all. Fox announced that the auteur is leaving the Wolverine movie.

It's been a very good year for Detroit's crime-fighting cyborg. You've seen the RoboCop statue plans and heard Peter Weller address the robo-statue naysayers. Now it looks like the RoboCop remake from MGM is finally going forward.