>Ashton Kutcher was the top choice to play Batman before Christopher Nolan was hired to direct. Nolan was interested in Josh Hartnett, but he declined because he didn’t want to do studio movies anymore.>Henry Cavill, Cillian Murphy, Jake Gyllenhall, Hugh Dancy, Billy Crudup, Eion Bailey, David Boreanaz and Joshua Jackson tested for Batman before Christian Bale was cast.>Amy Adams, Claire Danes and Reese Witherspoon tested for Rachel Dawes before Katie Holmes was cast.>Robert Downey Jr., Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor and Jeremy Davies tested for Scarecrow before Cillian Murphy was cast, having impressed Nolan with his Batman audition.>Gary Oldman was approached for Ra's Al Ghul, but wanted to play Jim Gordon. Chris Cooper, Kurt Russell and Dennis Quaid were eyed for Gordon beforehand.>Nolan wanted to cast Guy Pearce as Ra’s Al Ghul after Oldman went for Gordon, but a WB exec hated Pearce and refused to cast him. Nolan conceded Pearce was too young to play Bale’s seasoned mentor and cast Liam Neeson instead.>Anthony Hopkins was considered for Alfred before Michael Caine was cast.>Laurence Fishburne was considered for Fox before Morgan Freeman was cast.
>Rachel McAdams was offered the role of Rachel in The Dark Knight after Katie Holmes dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, but declined. Isla Fisher and Emily Blunt also tested before Maggie Gyllenhall was cast.>Hugh Jackman was offered the role of Harvey Dent, but couldn't commit due to scheduling conflicts. Jude Law, Josh Lucas, Liev Schreiber and Mark Ruffalo also tested before Aaron Eckhart was cast.>Paul Bettany, Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody, Sean Penn, Hugo Weaving, Johnny Depp, Vincent Cassel, Crispin Glover and Lachy Hulme tested for the role of the Joker before Heath Ledger was cast. Bettany was WB's choice for the role and Nolan's backup should Ledger be unavailable.>Philip Seymour Hoffman was linked to the role of Oswald Cobbleplot, a Russian weapons dealer and one of Gotham’s crime bosses, before the character was scrapped and replaced by the Chechen.>WB wanted the Riddler as the main villain of The Dark Knight Rises, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, but Nolan believed he was too similar to the Joker.>Rachel Weisz was approached for Talia Al Ghul before Marion Cottilard was cast.>Ryan Gosling tested for John Blake before Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cast.>Zoe Kravitz tested for Catwoman’s prostitute friend Jen before Juno Temple was cast.
>>151220285>Nolan was interested in Josh Hartnett, but he declined because he didn’t want to do studio movies anymore.damn>but a WB exec hated Pearce and refused to cast him. why?
>>151220331Guy wouldn’t taste his kosher pickle
Here's a video with the screen tests for Bale, Murphy and Eion Bailey, plus costumes tests for Two-Face, Catwoman and Bane.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h7EQphYhAA
>>151220537i liked cillian murphy more in this desu he felt like pattinson but i get why he played scarecrow instead
>>151220537murphy would have been a good va in a batman game/animated show
>>151220285Nolan also really didn't want Scarecrow to wear a mask but WB forced him into using it
>>151220331>Guy Pearce has revealed that the reason he has not worked with Christopher Nolan since the 2000 film “Memento” is because he was repeatedly blocked by a Warner Bros executive who didn’t like his acting.>“Chris spoke to me about roles a few times over the years,” the 57-year-old actor said. “The first Batman and The Prestige. But there was an executive at Warner Bros who quite openly said to my agent, ‘I don’t get Guy Pearce. I’m never going to get Guy Pearce. I’m never going to employ Guy Pearce.’ So, in a way, that’s good to know. I mean, fair enough: there are some actors I don’t get. But it meant I could never work with Chris.”>The unnamed executive “just didn’t believe in me as an actor”, Pearce said. “They flew me to London to discuss the Liam Neeson role and I think it was decided on my flight that I wasn’t going to be in the movie. So I get there and Chris is like, ‘Hey, you want to see the Batmobile and get dinner?’”https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/guy-pearce-the-brutalist/
>>151220288>>Zoe Kravitz tested for Catwoman’s prostitute friendfunny how that works
>>151220998That producer sounds like a real jerk!
>>151220285>>Amy Adams, Claire Danes and Reese Witherspoon tested for Rachel Dawes before Katie Holmes was cast.I call bullshit on this because anyone on that list is way better than Katie Holmes and she doesn't precisely has a lot of on screen chemistry with Bale.>Laurence Fishburne was considered for Fox before Morgan Freeman was cast.Freeman is the better actor but it would've interesting the approach of Fishburne to the role.
>>151220992>Nolan also really didn't want Scarecrow to wear a maskGod nolan is so gay
>>151220285I'll say this, Nolan made a big trilogy for you
