In any case, changing a character's race is actually more common than you might think you can find some rather blatant examples here. I had just finished working with Tommy Lee Jones on The Client, and I thought he would be a great Harvey Dent\Two-Face." "I didn't consider Billy Dee Williams for the role, because I think that he is a hero. Tommy Lee (Tommy Lee Remix) Tyla Yaweh, tommy lee, Post Malone. "I always wanted Tommy Lee Jones," explains the director. (Joel Schumacher also shot down the prospect of a black Robin: After replacing Burton to give the film a 'lighter' tone, Schumacher recast Tim Burton's original choices which also included Marlon Wayans as Robin and Renee Rousso as the love interest.) And according to this site, Schumacher wanted Jones for the role from the very beginning: Since Dent was white in the comics, and since Billy Dee Williams' role in the first film was rather small, and since the role of Batman himself had been recast anyway, it seems Schumacher didn't feel the need to maintain this particular continuity. Williams was set to reprise the character as Two-Face in the sequels, but the Harvey Dent character was deleted from the script for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), and Batman Forever (1995) director Joel Schumacher decided to cast Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face. In Batman (1989), Billy Dee Williams appears as a Harvey Dent before his disfigurement, vowing to reduce crime by locking up mob boss Carl Grissom.
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