12 Shocking Batman Movie Plans That Almost Happened

11. Marlon Wayans As Robin

For Batman 1989 and even before it, there had been some talk of Robin being included, but ultimately, the idea was scrapped with the plan to revisit the character in Batman Returns.

At that stage, Burton and Warner Bros turned to Marlon Wayans of all people, fundamentally missing the fact that he wasn't a particularly good actor (though to be fair, he was a fair distance away from making the A Haunted House movies).

This Robin was to be a mechanic - a new backstory written when Wayans came on board - and for a while, it looked like it was going to happen. Inevitable pointless race-changing controversy aside, messing with the backstory and hiring someone who turned out to be as divisive as Wayans would have been a mistake.

He got to the costume-fitting stage but ultimately another script change came along and cut him out with writer Danel Waters calling him "the most worthless character in the world, especially with the loner of loners." Which might well have been for the best.