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If Clooney Batman met again, if O'Donnell Robin met Pfeiffer Catwoman?

Joel Schumacher did claim in a video interview that he approached Robin Williams several times about playing the Riddler for "Batman Forever", once it was a done deal that Schumacher would replace Burton, with Williams responding, "I'd love to!", but never fully committing to signing on. This go around happened a few more times with Williams, until (I assume) the deadline to get the Riddler cast was coming up, and then Jim Carrey got offered the gig. According to Schumacher, Williams never outright turned down the part, but wouldn't make any strong overtures about signing on either. Leaving Schumacher in limbo until a decision needed to be made.

It makes sense that Williams liked the Riddler but was still irked and wanted apology for how WB dealt with him in, gave and took away Joker in B89.

Ford and Affleck do both come off as overly egotistical and unappreciative of their stardom but I guess that's not really surprising or unusual, with enough talent to do great in a role you probably usually will think that you completely deserved it and you specifically were what made the rest great.

I hated the movie, it mostly felt like a lot was what I had already seen before and either worse or as bad.

Pattinson Batman felt too much like just Bale Batman again with some elements from Keaton added in, very cheap.

I had been looking forward to Farrell as Penguin and Dano as Riddler and they were so disappointing. In particular the Riddler felt like just doing the Joker and Bane again combined.

John Turturro as Falcone and Jeffrey Wright as Gordon were pretty much the only good parts.

Should Chase Meridian have returned? She basically could have easily had the role Julie did have, aside from already knowing Bruce was Batman, but that might have been too underwhelming for, and misuse of, Kidman after having a bigger role before in BF and also felt weird for Batman to mostly, though briefly, be interested in and lusting after someone else. BF did seem to try to say that Chase was the one.

Also, could it have been cool if B&R had also used "Kiss from a Rose," its meaning with the film having Ivy now seen as being pretty different?

Everyone seems to assume it would have Two-Face just from that BF did actually have him and I guess that they like Billy Dee Williams, Burton doing Two-Face kind of makes sense but with him not bringing back Dent at all in BR I think indicates he had very much lost interest in the character and/or in Williams as him. I think Burton just doing Riddler, and/or maybe Scarecrow or Ivy in a third film would be more likely. It also makes sense that Burton, even liking Freeze, would not want to do another icy villain/theme back to back after BR.

As for Penguin? Hard to say. Me and many others here have imagined what the Penguin would've been like if he was played by Phil Collins or Bob Hoskins. Joe Pesci? Perhaps Schumacher could've offered him the role, as Pesci was still at his peak in 1991/92.

Glad that DeVito was cast by Burton but Pesci sure was in weird but cool, promising position/prospects in 1991, having just been a big supporting part of both the very much for adults film Goodfellas and the kids/family film Home Alone, both big liked successes.

As Joker or Penguin or Catwoman if Burton hadn't made his films first or his films had more blatantly been a different continuity?

Or as Batman in '88-'89 if he had gone first? I think he would have gone with huge cool star Bruce Willis.

It's weird that Schumacher could have read and liked Year One and yet in directing his Batman films encouraged, directed the actors that We're doing a cartoon! well I guess with his films he was openly focusing on the '50s-'60s versions but I don't know that he then could have done something really different a few years later.

I do like Falling Down and Phone Booth (and A Time to Kill) but he probably did seem them as just very different kinds of films.

I didn't really get why or like that Bruce and his company would be working with Lex, that seem pretty forced and underexplained.