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John Lithgow, Batman

Although Nicholson didn’t take on Michael Corleone, he has John Lithgow to thank for his role as The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman. Lithgow was actually set to play the nemesis not once, but twice—first in a Joe Dante film that never made it to the big screen, and again in the 1989 box office smash hit.

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