At the time, Dante might have felt that people wanted to see more Batman than the Joker, but he was wrong. Does he regret it? Hopefully not. Willem Dafoe was in red-hot form in the ‘80s ...

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Before that, he was briefly considered for the role of The Joker by Tim Burton and Sam Hamm for 1989's Batman. Hamm recalls "We thought, 'Well, Willem Dafoe looks just like The Joker.'" ...