10 Things DC Comics Want You To Forget About Two-Face

9. Lando Calrissian Was Meant To Play Him In A Film

It seemed that, for a time, Tim Burton was going to tell the first complete, long-form Batman story on screen a good twenty years before Christopher Nolan got anywhere near the director's chair. In the 1989 film about the caped crusader - the first of the modern superhero movies, really - Burton introduced scores of important elements of the Batman mythos, including hints at future installments in what was to be an ongoing franchise. One of those elements was Billy Dee Williams' part as Harvey Dent, the District Attorney who liaises with Commissioner Jim Gordon over the costumed freaks plaguing Gotham City. Williams believed he was signed on for multiple films eventually culminating in the actor portraying the villainous Two-Face. Which would have been super cool both because we would have loved to have seen Williams' version of the character, and because they would have made sure the transformation from hero to bad guy was especially tragic, since audiences would have seen him on the side of the good for two films. Except then his character got cut out of the follow up film, Batman Returns, entirely. Wesley Strick's rewrite of the script actually excised a scene where Dent flipped a coin, heavily foreshadowing at his fall from grace in the next film. That next film, of course, was Batman Forever. Burton left the series, as did most of its stars, and in amongst all the recasting hoopla Williams had his chance at playing Two-Face torn straight from his hands by Tommy Lee Jones in one of his hammiest and most forgettable performances. A great shame and, considering his age and Eckhart's time in the part, we'll probably never see what Lando Calrissian could have brought to the role.