Earlier this yr “The Batman” launched us to a terrifying new model of basic villain The Riddler. And now the actor that performed the character, Paul Dano, is exploring this model of the Riddler’s tragic backstory in a brand new comedian e book sequence – “The Riddler: Yr One.” Now, a brand new video, timed to the discharge of the primary difficulty, sheds some mild on its secret origins (watch beneath).
“Matt and I talked so much about his script, which was very absolutely realized, and the place Edward got here from,” Dano explains within the video. Throughout these discussions, he introduced up a bit of the characters again story, at which level “The Batman” co-writer/director Matt Reeves exclaimed that he ought to flip it into a comic book e book. Reeves known as DC Comics exec Jim Lee the next day and advised him in regards to the mission: “Paul has an thought to do that comedian and I believe he ought to simply do it. It’s a Riddler origin comedian from the film.”
Dano stated that the concept to do a Riddler comedian and to discover the mythology of Batman actually “gripped him.” “The thought was to enter the comedian in a very subjective method,” Dano stated. “I at all times felt like the one constructive affirmation Edward ever received in his complete life, was from fixing riddles and enjoying video games.”
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In “The Batman,” Dano’s Riddler is a totally fashioned super-villain; a serial killer who’s murdering outstanding members of Gotham society who he feels have corrupted town in a roundabout way. He additionally ignites an underground group of likeminded people to assist perform his huge plan, which entails flooding decrease Gotham and assassinating the newly elected mayor. After all, it’s as much as Batman (Robert Pattinson) and Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) to place a cease to his fiendish plot.
Reeves had at all times described the film as being Batman’s second yr of operation, so what might be attention-grabbing is to see and expertise his first yr on the job via the eyes of a cracked persona just like the Riddler.
The primary difficulty of the six-issue restricted sequence (on DC Comics’ extra prestigious Black Label) is out now.
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