10 Things You Need To Know About Joel Schumacher's Batman Triumphant
9. The Scarecrow Would Have Been The Villain...
Having dealt with Jim Carrey's Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face in Batman Forever, before squaring off with Arnold Schwarzenegger's pun-happy Mr Freeze and Uma Thurman's wilting Poison Ivy in Batman & Robin (the less said about the none-less-Tom-Hardy Bane in that film, the better), Batman Triumphant would've seen the Caped Crusader coming up against a whole other set of villains. In this case The Scarecrow was in the frame as the principal anatgonist. Jonathan Crane wound up being the main villain of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins years later, albeit in a much different form, in that case played by Cillian Murphy. This Crane was mostly the same: a psychologist who goes a bit nutty himself, and blights Gotham with his fear toxin which causes people to hallucinate their worst nightmares. Murphy wasn't the name he is now, though, and so Warner Bros were considering a trio of four actors to fill the role of The Scarecrow. So, Batman Triumphant could've seen George Clooney's hero facing off with a villain played by either Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Ewan McGregor or Jeff Goldblum. All of which would've been interesting, in their own ways...
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