Joaquin Phoenix was once director Darren Aronofsky‘s first choice to play Batman. The filmmaker reveals he wanted to reinvent the Caped Crusader after George Clooney‘s turn as the famed character in movie flop Batman & Robin – and suggested Phoenix as his leading man. “The studio wanted Freddie Prinze, Jr.
and I wanted Joaquin Phoenix…,” Aronofsky tells Empire of his plans for Batman: Year One. “It was a different time.
The Batman I wrote was definitely a way different type of take than they ended up making. “The Batman that was out before me was Batman & Robin, the famous one with the nipples on the Batsuit, so I was really trying to undermine that, and reinvent it.
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