Originally, Heath Ledger wanted to play the role of Batman, but as we all know, that part went to Christian Bale. Honestly, I’m not sure that I could see Ledger playing Batman after his iconic performance, but then again, he may have also portrayed it brilliantly.

It doesn’t really matter who’s cast as what these days, anyway. The public tends to have social media outcries whenever “their” actor in mind wasn’t cast as the role for a specific part. Case in point: Ben Affleck as Batman. The world went nuts about what horrible casting it was; meanwhile, I’m like hell yeah, Affleck will play the shit out of Batman. Go Affleck.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying the movie was the greatest, or even at times likeable, but Ben Affleck did what he was paid to do: be Batman.

Back to Ledger, though. Thankfully Nolan kept him in mind for other roles and cast him almost immediately as the Joker.