Michael Biehn mentioned that he got here near taking part in Batman in Tim Burton’s authentic film earlier than he selected to go together with Michael Keaton.
These days, it’s arduous to think about anybody apart from Michael Keaton taking part in Batman within the authentic Tim Burton film, however on the time, Keaton was thought of a dangerous selection. Burton naturally checked out different actors to star in Batman, and that included Terminator star Michael Biehn, who mentioned that he got here near snagging the function.
“I went in and met Tim Burton over at Warner Bros, and back in those days, they were just meetings, they weren’t auditions. I would just go in and meet,” Biehn mentioned in a current episode of the Simply Foolin’ About with Michael Biehn podcast. “However I used to be superb at telling individuals how good I used to be going to be at this function, how I used to be going to play it, I used to be going to do that, I used to be going to do this, typically a few of the dialogue would slip in, I’ve finished that many many instances.“
Biehn continued, “I did that with Tim Burton, and Tim Burton, I suppose, preferred me fairly a bit. Tim Burton had me in once more, and it was an essential sufficient assembly that Ed Limato (Biehn’s agent) got here in with me. We sat and talked with Tim Burton for about an hour. In fact, he ended up casting Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. However Limato instructed me that [Burton] had two decisions: it was both that selection or me and Robin Williams [as the Joker].“
Though Jack Nicholson was the studio’s most popular actor for the Joker, Robin Williams was truly supplied the half, just for Warner Bros. to grab it away in what Williams believed was an try to drive Nicholson’s hand. Pairing Williams with Biehn would have given us one thing fairly completely different, and it’s arduous to not think about what may have been.
As Biehn wasn’t an enormous comic-book fan, he didn’t appear too upset about lacking out on the function. Nevertheless, the actor concluded by praising Matt Reeve’s The Batman. “I f***ing love that movie,” he mentioned. “I assumed that was extraordinarily, extraordinarily properly finished. I preferred that one quite a bit.“
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