Kiefer Sutherland Could Have Played Robin in Tim Burton's BATMAN

Here's a really interesting tidbit of movie trivia. 24 star Kiefer Sutherland recently revealed in an interview with On The Box that he was asked if he would be interested in playing Robin in Tim Burton's Batman film! It's very hard for me to imagine Sutherland playing the sidekick Robin. I wonder how Burton even envisioned the character's look and style. Sutherland explains,

I’d just finished Stand By Me and Young Guns about the time that Warner Brothers were making the first Batman film with Michael Keaton and I got a call which asked me if I would be interested in playing Robin. I was like: ‘as in Robin with tights? No!’ I didn’t realise they were going to make the coolest movie ever! They didn’t have a Robin in the end, but I was only 19 so my agent could have helped me out a bit on that one.

Do you you think Sutherland could have pulled off Robin for Tim Burton? Imagine if he would have said yes. Like he said, the agent could have pushed it, and Robin could have ended up in the final script. It's weird to think about, but in the end I love Burton's Batman, and I'm glad Robin wasn't in it. 

In the same interview Sutherland talked about the script for the 24 movie, in which he's set to reprise his role as Jack Bauer. He goes on to say that a 24 movie was the last thing on his mind and added that,

Peter Chernin asked me to read the script and he was the Chairman of 20th Century Fox when 24 started so I felt obligated to read it, and at page 32 I was like ‘shit!’. I hoped that maybe it would get worse as I went on, but unfortunately it just got better. If 24 taught me anything it was that we work on opportunity’s schedule, it doesn’t work on ours. I missed a lot of chances earlier in my career because I wasn’t flexible.

So it sounds like the script for 24 is awesome! That's a good sign. I've always enjoyed the films that Sutherland was involved with, and I hope he gets to take on some more good movie and TV roles in the future.