The pair were slated to star in a Batman flick back in the ’80s, but Murray says “there was just a lot of vanity involved in production.”
Murray revisited this time in his career during a chat with Yahoo Entertainment’s The Never-Weres and shared why this one never came to fruition. It seems that the person they had in mind for the role of Robin wanted to be the lead.
“I talked to Eddie Murphy about it, and Eddie wanted to play Batman,” said Murray. “That’s as far as that conversation went.” He was asked if things had moved forward, would he have been Murphy’s sidekick on screen.
“I don’t wanna be the Boy Wonder to anybody,” Murray added. “Maybe much earlier when I was a boy. But it was too late for that by the ’80s. Also, I couldn’t do the outfit. Eddie looks good in purple, and I look good in purple. In red and green, I look like one of Santa’s elves. There was just a lot of vanity involved in the production. It wasn’t gonna happen.”
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