with only 2nd hand info, I think you have that one backwards.
Aronofsky was offered Wolverine because of Black Swan, not the other way round. My understanding was that with the success of Black Swan financially, whether unexpected or not, he had the juice with Fox to be offered Wolverine, an arguably big property.
When he then had "wishy washy issues with being away from his family to film in Japan" (quoted due to not being 100% sure of validity, he was able to take his french comic treatment and say essentially "well you wanted me on a big project, I'm now passing on your thing, what about my thing?"

As for questions of new episodes about this, this weekend there will not be "more on this as it develops," this weekend Cabin comes out. We won't even be recording. (Which was one of the main reasons we knocked out an insta-DIF two days ago; otherwise, we'd have to have waited two weeks!)

It's hard to believe Disney (c'mon Disney of all studios) is going to restore credibility and de-infantilize the franchise. We'll see.

Hmm. Maybe. I'm not really aware of anything other than the three movies, and I guess in my mind the decision is whether to try to add another three to the real three, or more junk to the EU.

I'll put money down that it's the story of Luke's son/daughter, with only Luke present and playing a tangental mentor role. There'll be a certain synergy to the third trilogy if it's centered around the next Skywalker generation.

Of course, then Lucas will claim in interviews etc. that he had always intended for Eps 1-3 to be the story of Anakin, 4-6 to be the story of Luke, and 7-9 to be the story of Ben (that's the name of Luke's son in the EU, and I'd be surprised if they dumped it, because it's a nice name that pays tribute to ObiWan and was probably approved by GL way back when).