stackyFACTSDecades before Christopher Nolan made the Caped Crusader a brooding, humorless ninja, the studio was convinced Batman had to be a slapstick farce. They seriously courted Bill Murray to don the cowl, which would have entirely replaced the gritty gothic angst with deadpan sarcasm.
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