Following the success of director Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Warner Bros. pursued him to direct a new Batman movie in the early 2000s. The movie never happened, but now, Aronofsky has shared some intriguing details about what the film might have offered, including its top talent.
The director told Empire that Warner Bros. wanted Freddie Prinze Jr. for the role of Batman, but he wanted to cast Joaquin Phoenix. This led to an impasse. "I remember thinking, ‘Uh oh, we’re making two different films here.’ That’s a true story. It was a different time. The Batman I wrote was definitely a way different type of take than they ended up making," Aronofsky said.
Warner Bros. eventually hired Christopher Nolan to direct a new trilogy of Batman movies, with Christian Bale cast as the Caped Crusader. The movies were enormously successful, making around $2.4 billion at the global box office across three instalments: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Source: GameSpot
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