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MTV Movies Blog: EXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton's 'Batman' Could Have Been Willem Dafoe?!
Cinema Blend News: Willem Dafoe Was Almost Batman, Seriously
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@nightwing24 http://bit.ly/snQqg 24 days ago |
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Willem Dafoe as Batman? It almost happened: http://bit.ly/snQqg 26 days ago |
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Not scoop or big story, but mildly interesting by general standards if not by hard-core movie-geek standards: http://tinyurl.com/yf44xdv 27 days ago |
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton's 'Batman' Could Have Been Willem Dafoe?!
MTV Movies Blog —
... FROM SPLASH PAGE: Before "The Dark Knight," many fans wondered how Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the Joker in Tim Burton's "Batman" could ever be topped, least of all by the seemingly unnatural choice of Heath Ledger. But if you believe one certain rumor, Nicholson almost lost the part to another actor—none other than Willem Dafoe. ...
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/Film —
If Scooby Doo had been set in a post apocalyptic zombie-infested world, it might look like this. [boingboing]
Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.
The 12th British Independent Film Award nominations were announced: Fish Tank earned 8 nominations including Best Film and Best Director, Duncan Jones’s Moon claimed 7 nominations ...
Willem Dafoe Was Almost Batman, Seriously
Cinema Blend News —
... Walken vibe, the kind of guy that you know is really talented but doesn't necessarily seem all there. His choice of roles tends to prove that point. His latest, The Antichrist is about a creepy psychologist who takes his wife into the woods to perform an unconventional mental cleansing on her after their baby dies. You may also remember that he is the only guy to play Jesus as a real dude, not that magical guy in the bible. Now imagine Dafoe as Batman because, according to MTV , he almost was. When asked about an age-old rumor that he had been attached to the Tim Burton ...
What IF Willem Dafoe Had Been Batman
Latino Review —
... do with the way the character was written back then as with Keaton's appearance and portrayal. You know what else is funny? I can name you at least three people who I think would've been a better Batman/Bruce Wayne circa 1988 or whenever Keaton was cast (Mel Gibson, Kurt Russel, Jason Patric) but I couldn't name you one other actor working right now who I think would be better than Christian Bale. That's just perfect casting right there. What do you guys think? Source: MTV
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Willem Dafoe was almost Tim Burton’s BATMAN???
GeekTyrant —
... MTV went straight to Dafoe himself for official word on the rumor. Though the actor denied that he was ever considered for the role of the Joker, he did confirm that he had an early attachment to the 1989 film. Dafoe explained: ...
