riddle me this, riddle me that.
who's afraid of the big black welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to
be my video for the Batman movie they finally confirmed who the Riddler is and
who's gonna be playing there Selina Kyle Catwoman
so if you're new to the channel we're doing a new DC giveaway all you have to
do to enter is be a subscriber and leave your favorite version of the Riddler and
Catwoman on the video I'll explain what's going on with the Riddler first
then I'll talk about what's going on with Catwoman
so the Riddler was just confirmed as Paul day know he's gonna be playing the
Edward gnashed and version of the Riddler not Edward nygma if you're not a
big comic book reader Edward Nash ttan is just the original name that the
Riddler went by in the classic comics when he was originally created later
writers that came on the title then gave him the Edward nygma name enigma as an
enigma so this is just Matt Reeves going back to the classic material which gives
you an idea for how he's treating a lot of the other Batman characters in his
franchise going for all the deep cuts if you don't know who Paul Dano is probably
some of his best performances are in Paul Thomas Anderson's there will be
blood gigantic and prisoners if you ever wanted to see what the Hugh Jackman
version of Batman might feel like while he's interrogating the Riddler here's a
clip from that fun fact that movie also stars Jake Gyllenhaal who for a brief
period was rumoured to potentially be the next version of the Batman he's even
interrogating Paul Danos character during this give you all kinds of dark
night vibes a lot of you heard the news a couple weeks ago when Jonah Hill was
actually rumored to be locking the role down he was either going to be playing
the Riddler or the penguin the trades are reporting that he dropped out of the
running because he was asking for too much money in the studio didn't one
another Batman 1989 situation with Jack Nicholson's Joker making vastly greater
sums of money than the person playing the title character Batman Michael
Keaton nowadays you don't necessarily need big celebrities to sell movies
sometimes it just coincidence when a big celebrity winds
up playing a comic-book character the reason why it was probably okay that
they went with that level of star power with Batman in 1989 because if you watch
the features and the interviews surrounding the making of that movie
they say that it was a huge financial risk for the studio at the time they
shot it in London and it was the most expensive movie that had ever been made
in London at that time Tim Burton was a young twentysomething director so he was
also a huge risk for the studio and up to that point Batman had been defined by
the 1966 campy Adam West TV series so in that case it made sense to cast that big
of a star like Nicholson and pay him his dump truck of money it was a very Robert
Downey jr. Avengers situation we haven't really seen a lot from the Riddler in
the modern incarnations of Batman movies they didn't use him during the
Christopher Nolan trilogy but there were rumors that he was going to be cast for
Dark Knight Rises then David Goyer one of the co screenwriters on the Dark
Knight trilogy said that Leonardo DiCaprio was almost cast as the Riddler
in Dark Knight Rises he said that as early as the premiere of The Dark Knight
there was talk about who the villain of the next movie Dark Knight Rises was
going to be because no one hadn't completely figured that out yet and the
studio really really wanted Leonardo DiCaprio as the Riddler but obviously
cut to four years later and we wound up getting Tom Hardy as Bane even if you're
not familiar with Paul Dano's work they're talking about Matt Reeves Batman
movie being based on the long Halloween story which obviously is a fantastic
story but that story involves a couple of different big Batman villains most of
the major villains from that have already been confirmed as appearing
during Matt Reeves movies so he's not going to be forced to carry all of the
weight of the villains storyline on his shoulders I was told there was no riddle
you could not solve and yet you've only put together one guests after another
each one with no more certainty than the next if your life depended on it and it
does tell me who is holiday talking about my favorite versions of
the Riddler I would say john glover from batman the animated series one of my
favorite versions of the character you remember him is Lionel Luthor from
Smallville he also starred in the live-action Batman movies as the evil
scientist that gave the uma thurman version of poison ivy her origin story
Ivy's you can't talk about the Riddler without
talking about Jim Carrey's version of the character I think for what that
movie was he did an amazing job with the character he's one of the few people in
that movie that knew exactly what kind of movie he was in one of the greatest
Riddler stories about him in the movies is the story of what happened behind the
scenes between Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones version of two-face so Jim Carrey
comedic actor was so in love with the idea of playing this Riddler character
that they had so much fun with it Tommy Lee Jones on the other hand is this very
serious dramatic actor who's forced to do this way over-the-top performance
something he was totally not comfortable with wearing all those prosthetics and
that makeup also something that he had never really done before everyone
remembers the memes of Tommy Lee Jones just angrily staring at people Tommy Lee
Jones spent most of that movie making that face Jim Carrey when they weren't
on camera it was the Gotham version of The Riddler
more recently I thought he did an okay job with that character I wasn't the
biggest fan of that series the Arkham version the Riddler obviously very cool
then you have the classic versions Frank Gorshin and John Astin from the 1966
Adam West Batman TV series everyone let me know in the comments though who's
your favorite version of The Riddler so far either from the animated series from
the movies or from the Arkham games now talking about the Catwoman casting if
you guys didn't hear the news earlier this week they confirmed that zoe
kravitz would be playing the Selina Kyle Catwoman real-life DC Comics Justice
League fun fact her father or her stepfather is actually Aquaman in the DC
Universe because Jason Momoa married her mother Lisa Bonet even if you don't
remember you've probably seen some of her recent films in the last couple of
years her biggest ones being Mad Max fury road x-men first class and
fantastic beast - even though that movie was not great and they didn't really do
a good job with that character she is a good actress
she just needs good material and the reason why they would cast her over some
of the other actresses she was competing with is just because she did the best
job and she probably had the best chemistry with Robert Pattinson 'he's
batman probably one of the most critical things yes they need to be great at
doing all the action big fight scenes things like that but her dynamic with
Batman needs to be really really good because their relationship is really
important during Batman the long Halloween and obviously if that's going
to be the story of the movie then it's really important for what this
next trilogy is going to be it's late it's hot even for June years from now
when people are talking about the weather they'll say it's hot but it's
not as hot as the night gianni bini got married hello Selina care to dance Bruce
if you haven't read the long Halloween the difference between Batman and
Catwoman relationship during that story as opposed to what's happening now in
the Tom King comics is that it's relatively early in their lives as those
alter egos so Batman doesn't know that Selina Kyle is Catwoman and Catwoman
doesn't know that Bruce Wayne is Batman they start dating each other as Bruce
Wayne and Selina Kyle during the day or obviously during the evening but then
they also run into each other as their alter egos when Batman is chasing
Catwoman down at night without them knowing each other's secret identity so
it's a very playful relationship where they wind up working together to help
solve this holiday murder storyline that runs through the long Halloween it's not
really clear how much they're gonna borrow from that comic book story I'm
assuming that they're gonna be changing some elements so we'll be a copy-paste
situation Anne Hathaway's version of the character during the Dark Knight Rises a
little more real-world so it's a little toned down a little more subtle even
during the bigger moments but my favorite live-action Catwoman so far is
still the Michelle Pfeiffer version from Batman Returns I just feel like she did
a fantastic job in that movie for what that was obviously the tone of those
films is very different from the other Batman films particularly Christopher
Nolan's trilogy and I'm expecting the Matt Reeves trilogy to do the same thing
where even though it's going for a very classic noir detective thriller story
the tone will be very different from other Batman films you've seen so far
yeah I saw her first Danny DeVito was also a fantastic penguin during that
movie speaking of which now that we know that Jonah Hill is not going to be in
Matt Reeves Batman trilogy we have to find out who our penguin is going to be
I feel like of all the villains that are left to cast hee in two-face are the two
that they have to nail and if they can get those two characters right in
addition to the people that they cast so far you guys you got a pretty fantastic
cast but everyone post your reactions in the comments below what do you think of
their new Riddler in their new Catwoman so far I will do more Batman movie
videos as they confirm more villains they're not going to be shooting the
movie till I think early next year but they've also said that two-face is
supposed to be in the movie as well as Mad Hatter in Firefly Firefly obviously
being one of the more minor villains really excited to see who they picked
for Mad Hatter and two-face though I'll name a new giveaway winner when I post a
new DC video I'm getting ready to post my non-spoilery Watchmen episode 1 video
that's gonna be a Sunday night show so I will be doing episode videos and Easter
eggs for that everybody click here for that new Batman flash crossover teaser
for crisis on Infinite Earths and click here for my Suicide Squad to first look
breakdown thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome I'll see you guys
tonight!