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Summary Jonathan Nolan, who worked with his brother Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight trilogy, reveals a villain they decided against using.
The Nolan brothers considered using Edward Nygma aka The Riddler for The Dark Knight Rises, but ultimately decided against it.
They felt The Riddler’s character was too close to what they had done with Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight.
Jonathan Nolan, who worked on The Dark Knight trilogy, reveals which DC villain from Batman’s rogues gallery was almost part of the franchise.
During a recent appearance on Happy, Sad, Confused, Nolan shared that The Riddler almost made his way into the iconic trilogy. But in the end, they opted not to use Edward Nygma, sharing the following reason:
I sort of started to play with ideas about The Riddler and what could be done with that character. But it did feel like it was close enough to the space of what we’d done with Heath [Ledger] that you really needed to…shift there.
Source: Happy, Sad, Confused/YouTube