What Tim Burton’s Batman Forever Would Have Looked Like

2. Brad Dourif As The Scarecrow

While some will say that too many villains can spoil a movie just as badly as too many cooks spoil the broth, Burton had intended to use quite a few, with Brad Dourif also considered to play The Scarecrow.

The actor - who is probbaly best known now for playing Wormtongue in The Lord Of The Rings movies - had made a name for himself playing slightly off-kilter characters like Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and voicing Chucky in Child's Play.

Given those roles, he would have made for a great Scarecrow (certainly better than Nic Cage, who could have played him in Batman Unchained). And as Dourif says, he would have been cast had the studio not taken a dislike to the idea:

"Tim Burton saw me on a plane and wanted to cast me and [Warner Bros.] said no.”

So why didn't we get to see this version of Batman III?