As far as we know, Darren Aronofsky’s next film is going to be the ballet thriller Black Swan starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, but this week he has added another project to his upcoming slate. It’s a heist film based on the odd story of UFC star “Lightning” Lee Murray. In 2006, Murray was arrested for his alleged involvement in a Securitas depot robbery in England that is known as the biggest heist in British crime history.

The project is being produced by XYZ Films and Time Inc. Studios, who set up a partnership last year to adapt various non-fiction articles from Time publications into feature films. This particular story comes from a Sports Illustrated article written by Jon Wertheim called “Breaking the Bank”, and a Howard Sounes book called Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery. Kerry Williamson (Fork in the Road) will write the script.

There seem to be a lot of movies coming out lately that are based on strange but true stories (Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! is the most recent example to hit theatres). Personally I’m all for it, and I am definitely interested to see Aronofsky’s take on a heist flick as well. But what will this mean for his Robocop reboot?