Although the wife of iconic Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain is mostly known for her own singing (particularly with her band, Hole), in fact she's also a very good actress who made a series of films back in the 1990s, and at that time, Courtney Love's Harley Quinn performance was very close to being a reality.
Currently, "Suicide Squad" is being filmed in Toronto, Canada, and it will feature the first-ever appearance of the character in the big screen, played by "The Wolf of Wall Street" Australian actress Margot Robbie - but, if there had been a sequel to "Batman & Robin" in the 1990s, the world would have seen Courtney Love as Harley Quinn.
According to People Magazine, the backlash against the 1997 film, which starred George Clooney as the Caped Crusader, was what that halted Courtney Love's Harley Quinn performance, though she was very close to getting the role.
Spin reports that the revelation of Courtney Love as Harley Quinn was made earlier this week, when director Joel Schumacher (who was behind the camera for Clooney's film as well as the Val Kilmer-led "Batman Forever") revealed that, if there had been a sequel to the film, Harley Quinn was going to be introduced as a character, with Madonna and Love as lead contenders - though it was the "Hole" singer he met with.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Schumacher revealed that the film that was going to feature Courtney Love as Harley Quinn would have also included previous villains like Jack Nicholson's Joker, besides possibly Nicolas Cage as Scarecrow (the role Cillian Murphy played in Christopher Nolan's trilogy) and cameos by Danny DeVito (The Penguin), Jim Carrey (The Riddler) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Catwomen), joining the cast of Schumacher's films with the Tim Burton movies.
Ultimately, the project was scraped after years working in it, until 2003 when Nolan took over and created "Batman Begins," which is a decade old this month - and the world missed out on Courtney Love as Harley Quinn.
