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I found this in the trivia section of the IMDB.
Before Christopher Nolan took over, director Darren Aronofsky was attached to make a Batman movie based on the graphic novel "Batman: Year One" and have the author Frank Miller write the screenplay. By 2003 there was a first draft screenplay with story boards, which are properties of AOL Time Warner. Warner's decision for not producing the film is unknown, but based on the details that have since leaked out, it would probably have to do with the screenplay, which strayed a considerable amount from the source material, making Alfred an African-American mechanic named "Big Al," the Batmobile being a suped-up Lncoln Towncar, and Bruce Wayne being homeless, among other things. This is all detailed in David Hughes' book "Tales from Development Hell."
We liked Sin City and a lot of the credit for that apparently belongs to Frank Miller, but why does he write stuff like this? Or Dark Knight Strikes Again? Has he decided he hates superheroes even more than Garth Ennis? Or is he just determined to crap all over anything he didn't create himself? Whatever the case is, please don't let him near Batman -- ever again.
