‘Dark Knight’ writer says studio bosses wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to play Batman villain
nme.comChristopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy has revealed that studio bosses wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as a key villain.David S Goyer wrote the three Batman adaptations alongside Nolan.
He’s now explained how, at the premier of The Dark Knight, the head of Warner Bros studio put forward the suggestion of DiCaprio as an actor to appear in The Dark Knight Rises.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goyer said the boss suggested that DiCaprio should play The Riddler in the final film in the trilogy.
However, Goyer went on to say that the suggestion was quickly dismissed.He explained: “We had all these pitches…I remember at The Dark Knight [premiere], the head of Warner Bros said, ‘You gotta do the Riddler.
Leo [DiCaprio] as the Riddler.’ That’s not the way we work – not to take anything away from him.”He explained that the themes of the film written up would dictate eventually the actors that would come to portray the characters and not the other way round.
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