

(Supposedly there was a version of “Batman Returns” where the Christopher Walken character was actually Billy Dee Williams’ Harvey Dent from the first movie.

“So, it makes me laugh a little bit.”īurton tells a funny story on the “Batman Returns” Blu-ray release, about how after the movie opened he went to Warner Bros. “It is funny to see this now, because all these memories come back of, ‘It’s too dark’,” he told Empire. In the same conversation, Burton marveled at how his vision for the character, initially deemed too dark, has given way to even darker incarnations in both Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the recently released “The Batman” from director Matt Reeves (which Burton admitted he hasn’t watched yet). Danny DeVito Praises Colin Farrell’s Penguin, But Still Prefers Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’
