What Tim Burton’s Batman Forever Would Have Looked Like

7. A New Love Interest

Though there was some criticism levelled at The Dark Knight Rises for the way it was perceived to be trying to turn Bruce Wayne into James Bond (with his promiscuous sex with the disguised Talia Al Ghul), Batman III would have given Keaton's Batman his third tryst in as many movies.

After Kim Basinger's Vicki Vale in Batman and Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle in Batman Returns, focus would have turned to a whole new love interest played by Rene Russo in the threequel. She was intended to play Dr Chase Meridian - who ended up being played by Nicole Kidman when Joel Schumacher came on board).

She had been at the height of her career when Batman III was being made, but ultimately Burton left and Schumacher decided to cast younger.