Monday, August 26, 2024

Batman 3 (Keaton/Williams)

Hey guys! Back in 2010, I started reading the earlier drafts of Batman Forever by Lee and Janet Scott Batchler with Akiva Goldsman. Those were written with Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Two-Face/Harvey Dent, and Robin Williams as The Riddler/Edward Nygma (The Riddler/Lyle Heckendorf to be exact). Those were written before Val Kilmer delivered the best interpretation of The Dark Knight and Jim Carrey delivered the awesome slapstick comedy into The Prince of Puzzlers. I realized it that the Batchlers wrote The Riddler with Robin's comedic delivery, because when you watched him in Aladdin and Mrs. Doubtfire, you knew that he is an awesome comedy actor, along with Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, and Redd "Fred Sanford, that is S-A-N-F-O-R-D Period" Foxx. The Batchlers created Chase Meridian as the love interest for Batman in the film and Tim Burton was a fan of Nicole Kidman's work in Malice and Joel knew that he's also a fan of her work when he saw the film Dead Calm, a film she did with Billy Zane in 1989, though Joel originally cast Renee Russo (Get Shorty) as Chase when Joel wanted Michael to return before Val got the gig. Now here's the fan art Logan Wood did on Facebook and Instagram.

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