Nolan Bros. Didn’t Agree on ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Villain at First; Jonathan Was ‘Unsure’ About Bane and ‘Started to Play With the Idea of the Riddler’ Instead
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jonathan Nolan appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast to tout his latest television series, Prime Video’s “Fallout,” but the conversation touched on Nolan’s time co-writing Batman movies with his brother, Christopher Nolan.
The siblings share screenwriting credit on 2008’s “The Dark Knight” and 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” Jonathan admitted that he was pushing for the Riddler to be the primary villain of “Rises” and not Bane, which is what Christopher and David S.
Goyer were planning. Goyer co-wrote “Batman Begins” and worked on the stories for the two sequels. “We had these conversations,” Jonathan said. “Bane came out of a conversation with David [Goyer] and Chris; I was unsure about that at the story stage, but I [didn’t want it to be] back seat driving.
Chris understood that what we had done and what Heath [Ledger] had done with [Joker] — you didn’t want to go anywhere near it.” “I started to play with the idea of the Riddler and what could be done with that character,” Nolan continued. “But it did feel like close enough to the space of what we had done with Heath, and you really needed to [change direction].
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