Crusading District Attorney Harvey Dent's descent to becoming disfigured criminal madman Two Face has been memorably immortalised on film with Aaron Eckhart's performance in The Dark Knight. However, the role had first appeared in cinemas almost twenty years earlier and looking quite different. Billy Dee Williams, still best known as the only black guy in the Star Wars galaxy, signed on for Tim Burton's Batman in a relatively minor role as Dent in the knowledge that the character's role would grow as he turned to the dark side. Unfortunately for Williams, the already villain filled Batman Returns had no place for the Two Face story on top of everything else. His role was instead taken by the original character Max Shreck. By the time the Two Face story did come up in Batman Forever, Burton had moved on and Joel Schumacher was hired instead. Schumacher decided to drop Williams and replace him with Tommy Lee Jones. Audiences were less bothered by the fact that Dent had changed colour than by Jones' dreadfully hammy performance. Batman Forever was nothing like the disaster that Batman & Robin was, but audiences were left imagining how a Burton-Williams Two Face could have been so much better.
