You Get To Cast Batman 1989, But.....

[The Shredder]

Adam West is a dick though

He was definately stubborn back in 1989. Apparently it was Batman, or nothing. So what he got was nothing. It's too bad he didnt take the Thomas Wayne cameo Burton was reported to have offered. I'm sure people would have loved seeing him. Since he was essentially what people thought of until that time of what Batman was.

 

[Bat-Mite]

He was definately stubborn back in 1989. Apparently it was Batman, or nothing. So what he got was nothing. It's too bad he didnt take the Thomas Wayne cameo Burton was reported to have offered. I'm sure people would have loved seeing him. Since he was essentially what people thought of until that time of what Batman was.

.... He wanted to actually play Batman!? Did he not realize that he was a bit old for the part at that point?

 

[The Shredder]

I think he thought of it like how the original stars were brought back for the Star Trek films. And how successful they were. No doubt West thought the same for Batman. And at the time, most of the main cast were still around as well. Ceaser, Burgess, and Gorshin. Fortunately, WB had other ideas. Something like West envisioned was more appropriate for a TV reunion movie anyways.

 

[K.B.]

Now one thing to think of is this...had West gotten the cameo would that have taken you out of the movie and more specifically, the parents death scene which is so impotant and was done perfectly?

 

[The Shredder]

I dont think it would have affected the film that much if the tone was kept the same, and filmed the same as to not let on exactly who was playing Thomas Wayne. But then again it may have. Although I believe it may have come as more of a shock to those who were unfamiliar with the reason why Bruce Wayne became Batman. It's a tricky thing when doing a cameo like that, but I would have faith in Burton doing it in much the same way to keep the tragedy of it all very much in focus.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Batman/Bruce Wayne - Denzel Washington
Alfred - Bill Cosby
Jack Napier/The Joker - Will Smith
Grissom - Samual L. Jackson

 

[Carusos Shades]

What about Pierce Brosnan for Batman? Certainly looks like the comic book Bruce Wayne. David Bowie is a good shout for Joker,someone should do a manip,when he had his hair slicked back it was uncanny.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Alec Baldwin - Bruce Wayne/Batman
David Bowie - Jack Napier/The Joker
Sean Young - Vicki Vale
Dennis Leary - Alexander Knox
Ronny Cox - Carl Grissom
Rene Russo - Alicia Grissom
John Hurt - Alfred Pennyworth
Sam Elliott - Commissioner Gordon
Samuel J. Jackson - Harvey Dent
Adam West - Mayor Borg
Vincent D'Onofrio - Lieutenant Eckhardt
William L. Peterson - Bob the Goon

CFE

Best one yet.

 

[Ultraman Nexus]

Hmm. Okay, I'll play. Off the top of my head..

Grissom: Kirk Douglas

Bob The Goon: Casey Siemazco

Jack Napier/The Joker: Johnny Depp

Gordon: Sam Elliot

Alexander Knox: Steve Guttenburg

Alfred: John Hillerman

Viki Vale: Geena Davis

Bruce Wayne/The Batman: Alec Baldwin (My first choice would be an unknown but Baldwin would be my choice if the studio were being ***** about needing to cast a name actor.)

On the choice of Depp, I don't know how their ages compare. Maybe a slight rewrite would be in order but I guess that's cheating the challenge.

 

[Noir]

Depp would have been about four

 

[The Shredder]

Depp played a teen in 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" .....

 

[DocLathropBrown]

I never thought Alec Baldwin was REAL Batman material in the way that Keaton was. He looks more like Wayne than Keaton, but I've never been impressed with his acting ability enough to believe it of him. Just like Clooney.

 

[AgentGraves!]

DENNIS QUAID! -BATMAN manip it now, please~!

 

[Ultraman Nexus]

Depp would have been about four

Uh no. He would have to at least have been in his 20's having just come off of playing a cop going undercover as a teen on TV in Jump Street and then I think he had a movie with Jon Waters by that point.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

I never thought Alec Baldwin was REAL Batman material in the way that Keaton was. He looks more like Wayne than Keaton, but I've never been impressed with his acting ability enough to believe it of him. Just like Clooney.

Very true, he just dosent have the acting power behind him to pull it off. Keaton may not have been a perfect Wayne (in looks) but he had Batman down pat.

 

[BingoJesus]

A Crispin Glover joker would've been great at the age he was back in '89, but in Nolans Batman universe, he would've been too young for B89.

 

[michael]

Bruce Wayne/Batman: Kurt Russell
The Joker: Willem Dafoe
Vicki Vale: Karen Allen
Harvey Dent: Daniel Day-Lewis
James Gordon: Robert Redford
Alfred: Max von Sydow

 

[fabman]

Ray Liotta - Bruce Wayne / Batman
John Glover - The Joker
Sean Young - Vicky Vale
Robert Downey Jr. - Harvey Dent
William Hurt - Comm. Gordon

 

[Noir]

Uh no. He would have to at least have been in his 20's having just come off of playing a cop going undercover as a teen on TV in Jump Street and then I think he had a movie with Jon Waters by that point.

He would have been what? Four? That is when he killed Bruce's parents.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

Bruce Wayne/Batman: Kurt Russell
The Joker: Willem Dafoe
Vicki Vale: Karen Allen
Harvey Dent: Daniel Day-Lewis
James Gordon: Robert Redford
Alfred: Max von Sydow

Apart from Von Sydow Great choices i can really see Redford in that role.

 

[Ultraman Nexus]

He would have been what? Four? That is when he killed Bruce's parents.

Ohh, right the flashback. Okay well ya got me there. I've never been a fan of Joker being the killer.