'The Batman' Casts Paul Dano as The Riddler

Authored by hollywoodreporter.com and submitted by Austin63867

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 on the 1960s TV series, while Jim Carrey played him in 1995's Batman Forever, which was 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.

Inspace96 on October 17th, 2019 at 18:05 UTC »

"Dano's version of the character will be named Edward Nashton, a departure from the comic books in which he goes by the name Edward Nygma."

Not a departure, thats the Riddlers real name. He changes it to Nygma after becoming a supervillian.

MisterFarty on October 17th, 2019 at 17:59 UTC »

a moment of silence for cowboys & aliens, which (unless things go catastrophically wrong) will finally be usurped as the highest grossing movie of paul dano’s career.

RansomGoddard on October 17th, 2019 at 17:51 UTC »

Well you can definitely plan on adding this to the list of movies where Paul Dano gets beat up.