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Paul Dano would be great. He’s one of the better more underrated actors working today. He’s a phenomenal actor and deserves more roles. Even if it’s a comic book style movie
Update: October 17, 2019
There Will Be Blood Actor Paul Dano to Play the Riddler in THE BATMAN
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Filmmaker Matt Reeves has found his Riddler for The Batman. Paul Dano has signed on as the classic villain, Warner Bros. announced Thursday.
Dano's version of the character will be named Edward Nashton, the man who in the comics later goes by the name Edward Nygma and adopts the villainous persona. Frank Gorshin and John Astin played the villain in the 1960s TV series, while Jim Carrey played him in 1995's Batman Forever, directed by Joel Schumacher.
Robert Pattinson is starring in The Batman, with Zoe Kravitz set to play Catwoman and Jeffrey Wright on board as Batman ally Commissioner Gordon. Jonah Hill was at one point eyeing a role as either the Riddler or the Penguin, but the deal did not come to fruition. Reeves has said he plans to include a rogues gallery of Batman villains in the film.
Dano was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role in Escape at Dannemora. The actor directed, co-wrote and produced the critically acclaimed film Wildlife. His other film credits include Love and Mercy, Prisoners, 12 Years a Slave, There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine,Youth and Okja, among others.
Created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, the Riddler — aka Edward Nygma, or "E. Nigma" — is a supervillain who aims to challenge Batman in a battle of wits, leaving clues and riddles for the world's greatest detective to solve in order to catch him. Since debuting in 1948's Detective ComicsNo. 140, he's gone on to become one of the most high-profile Bat-villains, appearing in movies, cartoons and video games across the past seven decades, stretching his question mark gimmick as far as it could go and then some, including spending some years as a good guy when he realized it was just as much fun to solve crimes as it was to commit them.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-casts-paul-dano-as-riddler-1248494
fuck it. I want devito back as the penguin
Number One BATMAN film.Batman Returns is epic. Keaton, Pfeiffer, Devito and Walken firing on all cylinders and Burton at the peak of his style.
it had camp but it fucking worked, unlike the two that followedNumber One BATMAN film.
Joel Schumacher ....it had camp but it fucking worked, unlike the two that followed
LOL Bill Finger and Dick Sprang sound like date maneuvers.lol Dick Sprang
Batman Returns is epic. Keaton, Pfeiffer, Devito and Walken firing on all cylinders and Burton at the peak of his style.
I really thought I hated Joel Schumacher then I read that the producers wanted to cast Demi Moore for Poison Ivy but he insisted on Uma. Reminder that she would’ve come straight from filming thisJoel Schumacher ....
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