Joel Schumacher Wanted Nic Cage To Play The Scarecrow. MISSED OPPORTUNITY.

Yo, fuck  Cillian Murphy. The greatest actor of all time almost played the Scarecrow in  Schumacher’s third Batman flick. Can you only image the utter insanity that would have been a Cage-powered Scarecrow? An insane man with hallucinations playing an insane man who induces hallucinations.

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Before  Batman & Robin  was released, crushing the dreams of fans around the world, Warner Bros. was legitimately excited about the film, which was set to move lots of toys. Schumacher revealed in an interview with  The Playlist  that plans were already underway to make another Batman movie (that is until the actual movie came out and everything went straight to hell).

“I was supposed to do a fifth one,” Schumacher says. “I was talking to Nic Cage about playing the Scarecrow. I had begged the studio for [the Frank Miller comic] ‘The Dark Knight [Returns],’ but they wanted a family friendly, toyetic thing.”

The idea was simple Cage would star as the big bad in this flick, using his fear toxins to trick Batman into think all of his old, long dead enemies were back to haunt him. Thus bringing back the still-under-contract Jack Nicholson. But wait there’s a twist, of course The Joker couldn’t be back. His widely seen death in Tim Burton’s flick was way too popular to hit the re-do button. The real villain would be Harley Quinn, who would later be revealed as The Joker’s daughter, looking for a little revenge on Batman for killing her father. The movie was called,  Batman: Triumphant.

I am Jack’s sense of a missed opportunity.