From Phoenix to "Taxi Driver" inspiration, Aronofsky's Batman vision sounds a whole lot like "Joker." “The studio wanted Freddie Prinze Jr. and I wanted Joaquin Phoenix,” he recalls.

It's fun to imagine what Darren Aronofsky's fabled Batman movie would have looked like, no matter who donned the famous cowl (would Batman have fought his own evil doppelgänger, perhaps?).

Darren Aronofsky, the director behind cinematic mind-f*cks like Requiem for a Dream and mother!, was hired by Warner Bros. to direct a Batman film. It went as well as you might expect. The film ...

"A rated-R superhero movie was probably 10 to 15 years out of whack with the reality of the business then," Aronofsky said of the scrapped project from 2000. There was a time in mid-2000, post ...

In the book, there s a write up on the failed Batman project from director Darren Aronofsky and writer Frank Miller, which would have been a spin on Miller's own Batman: Year One. Much of this ...

who crafted a dark-and-gritty origin story derived from the Batman stories by Frank Miller. That dynamic young filmmaker was Darren Aronofsky, an ascendant indie director rising off the critical ...

Both Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky have had some high-profile ... version of Frank Miller’s acclaimed Dark Knight story, “Batman: Year One.” “It was after ‘Batman & Robin ...

Way back in the early parts of 2000, Warner Bros. approached Darren Aronofsky, coming off the back of Requiem For A Dream, to take on Batman and bring it in a much more darker, realistic tone.

The new trailer for Caught Stealing, which you can watch below, opens with Austin Butler as a bartender named Hank Thompson ...

Given that Miller spent the back half of the 2000s planning a story about Batman fighting Al-Qaeda, the only conclusion to draw is that Aronofsky’s version of Batman was a full-fledged sadist.