The next Batman movie.

[noodleplugerine]

Just to be awesome- read the very last (bottom right) Gotham Times (TDK marketing page). A letter by Edward Nashton.

The first person who tells me who Edward Nashton is wins a prize.

Google says riddler :D

[horsehead]

There's a thought & Hope going round that the Riddler could be like a Zodiac type killer..now I really like that idea!

[WezV]

see, i thought they could do clayface in a non-supernatural way quite easily - - - although it might end up like the farce that was the end of the first mission impossible film

[mecca777]

Riddler does seem the most likely option of the major Batman villains, but I think there's also a place for a creepy and dark take on the Mad Hatter if they're prepared to go down the route that the comic Hatter took in recent years. Perhaps a subplot? A spree of bizarre Riddler killings becoming entangled with a child-kidnap Mad Hatter theme?

I don't think they'd go with any of the more supernatural or goofy "deformed" villains; can't see Poison Ivy or Killer Croc making it somehow. I suppose if they want to keep drawing on the darker Batman comic material, they could always adapt the Holiday killings from "The Long Hallowe'en" somehow, which would also have the advantage of furthering the Batman-cops-Mafia triangle set-up that the first two movies have been built on.

I just hope they keep it hard and dark as hell; the Nolan/Bale movies have been some of the best comic book adaptations ever. I'd rank them up there with Superman 1&2, easily.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

Damn you Mecca! I was just about to suggest the Mad Hatter! Having been watching dvds of the old animated series, I can say he's one of my favourites.

There seems to be a lot of speculation about the Riddler, which to be honest, I wouldn't have a problem with. It would certainly create a very interesting movie.

Although I think Talia Al Ghul would be a good idea, considering how Batman Begins ended.

[Scotty477]

I would like to see the Riddler as the main villain - but a really nasty version.

To back him up I'd go for a combination of Killer Croc, Clayface and although not a Villain I would love to see Man-Bat get a look in.....

[Nadz1lla]

Although I think Talia Al Ghul would be a good idea, considering how Batman Begins ended.

Aye Talia would be an awesome addition, but the thing is, in the comics, Ra's, Talia and Battie have such an intertwined "family" story thing going on they would really have to bring Ra's back for it to work, especially for the Comic fans. Considering Nolan wants nothing to do with the supernatural stuff they're going to have to work hard on how to plausibly bring him back from that monorail wreck. If he was going supernatural, Ra's followers could easily just take his barely-living body back to the Lazarus Pits for his immortal regeneration but somehow I think Nolan will steer well clear of that.

[badgermark]

I'd like the idea of a big, hulking mob boss that goes by the name Penguin. Not a deformed midget like the comics. Like Harvey Dent was always called Harvey, even at the end. I don't remember there being a MASSIVE thing about calling him Two-Face, at least after Gordon visited him. Damn I want to see TDK again.

[maverickf1jockey]

I wouldn't mind seeing what they could do with Vertigo (although it could end up a bit too art-house for a Hollywood Blockbuster.

I always felt that The Penguin's deformity was integral to his character, motivating his crimes as a way of funding his reintegration into high society.

I am against the Riddler being involved as I have always seen him as a campier version of the Joker (Although I thought Heath Ledger was a bad choice seeing as he had to live up to Jack Nicholson's performance of the part in the first Tim Burton film.).

I think that if one were to use the Riddler it would only be as a suggestion of a pattern linking disparate crimes as opposed to the obtuse clues Adam West used to follow. Perhaps he could be used as a kingpin figure across the series but never properly revealed or credited, like a figure in the background that recurs (maybe he's already there...  :| ).

[noodleplugerine]

Very nice Photoshopping - He'd make a superb villain.


New question - Who would you cast as Riddler if it was him?

I like the idea of David Tennant :>

[maverickf1jockey]

Devin Townsend would probably do a decent job as he has the kind of unhinged sense of humour I, if I were the director, would be looking for. He can also act, even if he is playing himself.

I can see him in a grotty basement plotting the downfall of Batman.

Alternatively Phil Cool could probably do with the work (although he might be better as Two-face or Clayface.).

Dylan Moran or Bill Bailey could probably have a good crack at it, too.

[horsehead]

Didn't someone mention Simon Pegg as a possible for the Riddler?

[noodleplugerine]

Didn't someone mention Simon Pegg as a possible for the Riddler?

He did a good job at a dark character in that Dr Who he did.

[Brow]

If we're talking comedians as possibilities to play The Riddler, I reckon someone like Eddie Izzard would be a good choice, someone with a bit of a darker side to them

[WezV]

did you not see mystery men!   not sure Eddies past experience as a comic book villian will help him out