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Could you ever imag­ine a Bat­man film as directed by Orson Welles? How about James Cagney as the Rid­dler or George Raft as Two Face? Some might call this ludi­crous and oth­ers might pro­claim genius. The same man who adapted H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds to radio (and fright­ened thou­sands of lis­ten­ers across the Nation) might very well have breathed new life into this comic book character.

Accord­ing to comicbookresources.com:

bq. “Orson Welles seri­ously con­sid­ered doing a Bat­man pic­ture and even got as far as pro­duc­tion designs, an early draft of a script and some cast­ing pho­tographs fea­tur­ing var­i­ous friends and col­leagues in pro­to­types of what would even­tu­ally become the fin­ished cos­tumes.” (link)