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Billy Dee Williams's Harvey Dent was one of the biggest missed opportunities in the early Batman films. After being featured in Tim Burton's 1989 epic, he went missing in the sequel; Batman Returns. But what would have happened to the character if he showed up in this 1992 cult favorite? Rob is here to answer that question and much more in this episode of FanScription!share
Tim Burton doing Batman Forever with Billy "Dent" Williams would have been spectacular! We missed out on that movie, as a collective audience.
Weird to think about, though, if Burton had done that film, and maybe a fourth Bat-outing, possibly even with Scarecrow, we might never have gotten Batman Begins, or a very different version of it.
I was watching Vice TV's Icons Unearthed series, and Billy Dee Williams was interviewed saying that when he did Batman 1989, he really didn't interact or collaborate with Tim Burton that much. Jon Peters brought Billy Dee for the Harvey Dent role, and Billy Dee was hopeful that down the line, it would inevitably lead to him to becoming Two-Face.
But of course, by the time that Batman Returns rolled around, Tim Burton didn't want a lot of "baggage" from the first movie to carry over since he was now given creative carte blanche over the sequel. So a lot of characters from the first movie such as Vicki Vale, Alexander Knox, and Harvey Dent had to go.
I've always preferred Returns over B89 but it would have been nice to see Knox and Dent make an appearance. I get why they got rid of Vale to make way for Catwoman as the love interest.
shareI also somehow, get the feeling that Tim Burton didn't want to use people for whom he perceived were "Jon Peters people" like Billy Dee Williams and Kim Basinger. Perhaps, they were examples of actors who were more or less, "forced onto" Burton.
And Daniel Waters, who was the screenwriter for Batman Returns, admitted on Icons Unearthed that he didn't like Robert Wuhl's Alexander Knox character. Knox was actually originally going to die at the end of Batman 1989. And Robert Wuhl even said that maybe by keeping his character alive, that would mean that they'll inevitably bring him back for the sequel.
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