I've been trying to think of how to put the Riddler in a movie. I would want to probably go more of a realistic Nolan approach, but it doesn't have to be necessarily. What would you guys do?
Riddler
Character » Riddler appears in 1572 issues.
Edward Nigma is a villain obsessed with riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers, who took the alias of the Riddler to commit crimes. Riddler frequently tries to outsmart Gotham's hero Batman, but is always defeated by the Dark Knight.
How to put the Riddler in film
I think it would be good to have the Riddler as a cyber terrorist and also have him played by Depp and based off of this version:
Post by Ssmojo24 (3 posts) See mini bioLevel 5
No, he should not be played by either of those actors... Why do you comic dweebs always pick over used actors who have already stared in Marvel films as villains? You are often an uncreative lot. The only one of you who somewhat named something cool was Beretta saying he wanted Spacey but I imagine that despite Spacey being a great actor, you only chose him because you either watched Se7en or Usual Suspects.
I honestly feel like ever since the early early rumors of Riddler being the main villain in Nolan's third Batman film people have always failed at properly devising a theoretical way of how the Riddler should be portrayed, instead I just read the same stupid ideas over and over again about how he should be either some private investigator or complete Joker rip off with the actor being whoever is most popular at the time and it is rather frustrating to say the least. First of all, the Riddler is not the Joker, this is a very important and over looked detail that people need to accept because all I ever read about is how he needs to be some twitchy green suite wearing psycho that puts Batman in mind twisting, riddle inducing death traps while he figures out batman's identity. I mea, for fuck's sake, it's almost like just slapping the Riddler in the face by his own fan base by such awful recommendations. Yes, Heath's Joker was phenomenal and it's a terrible shame that he had to pass away (all Joker recasting rumors/request were just plain idiotic) but people are just placing the Riddler further into the Joker's shadow by wanting this. Though I do admit, I did somewhat like the jigsaw-esque Riddler that was presented in Arkham City, I also know that such plotlines do not define him properly as he would just be seen as a watered down Joker.
A better idea of what his mentality is like is exemplified in his appearances in the stories Run Riddler Run, Hush and the Loeb + Sale series (TLH, DV & When in Rome) where he is presented as weak and unthreatening yet is still a master of manipulation and deceit while maintaining the mannerisms of a gentleman bandit. I know many of you will argue that he needs to be evil, cool, and everything else the Joker was in TDK but you will somehow try to say it would be different if blah blah blah. The Riddler is not someone who tries to kill batman with muscle or death threats, he is a puppet master, he would most likely set in motion a series of events and red herrings in order to watch or even at some points tag along the ride just to see how well the Dark Knight does and saves his final move for the most opportune moment.
As for casting, I believe that the actors that were rumored were all poorly chosen, most fan boys just choose actors based on fame/popularity which is the complete opposite of what Nolan does which is casting by talent... I mean come on, let us reminisce for a moment all the casting rumors that were surfacing, Johnny Depp? Eddie Murphy?? THEY EVEN THOUGHT SHIA LEBOUGH WAS GOING TO BE ROBIN FOR FUCKS SAKE!!! OR EVEN WORSE THEY THOUGHT JGL WAS GOING TO BE RECAST AS THE JOKER UGHHHHH THESE IDEAS ALONE DISPROVE ANY FORM OF DARWINISM'S SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!
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