The Irish actor and star of TV’s gangster drama Peaky Blinders originally auditioned for the lead role in Batman Begins.
In the mid-1980s, Warner Bros. developed a Batman film with Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, rumored to star Murray alongside another SNL veteran, Eddie Murphy, as Robin.
But he was reportedly in consideration for Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman and then again for Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, released the year after Forrest Gump.
In a 2009 interview with ComicBookMovie.com, Depp revealed that he was very interested in suiting up for Batman Forever.