Wayans even said in 2009 that he got paid for the role but Burton didn’t include the character. There’s a Dick Grayson character in that early script and Wayans, who was 17 when Burton’s movie was released, was set to play the part. Early in the history of the Tim Burton “Batman” movies, there was talk of a street-wise, “urban” actor being cast as Dick Grayson. He’s quite capable of pulling off a dramatic scene and he might have brought a Burt Ward-style energy to the movie. Fox as Dick Grayson/Robin? Fox had the right stature, both physically and Hollywood-wise, for the part. So, given the late-1980s period, why not cast 80s star Michael J. I know from reading an early draft of the script – more about that another day – that Robin was originally meant to be a character in the movie. Remember the controversy when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman” in Tim Burton’s 1989 movie? Keaton was primarily a comic actor with a receding hairline and not enough chin.
The rest are just random thoughts that popped into my head over the past couple of decades. Only one of these falls into that “almost happened” category, though. With “The Dark Knight Rises” coming out soon and Warners and DC Comics planning a reboot for the Batman character, I got to thinking about ideal or almost-happened casting for Batman movies in the past.
With a couple of Marvel movies in the works, including “Iron Man 3” and “The Wolverine,” and a couple more in the offing – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” maybe? – somebody’s being cast as a Marvel character every few days. With Marvel Comics movies, the casting game is going on, officially and unofficially, in Hollywood and in Everytown, all the time these days. Who should play their favorite superheroes and villains in a movie? It’s a guessing game – a match game of sorts – that comic book fans have been playing for decades.
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