4thegreatergood:
I've got a Riddler AND a Penguin rumor. Apparently Johnny Depp will be the Riddler and Philipp Seymour Hoffman will be the Penguin.

EDIT: That's not my opinion but an actual rumor.

I've heard the same and quite frankly I don't see Depp playing a good Riddler. I would personally like to see David Tennant as the Riddler. If you've seen Prisoner of Azkaban you know he can play a slightly demented individual. And if you haven't seen the fan poser yet, he just looks so good in a suit... The Poster

The rumours were from The Sun. A UK tabloid and worth less than the paper it's printed on.

All I'm saying is B A N E. Get rid of the mexican wrestler mask and the guy is perfect. Mafia/organised crime based. Actually dangerous. Can bust all the criminals out of Arkham.

In the Knightfall arc Bane actually beats Batman. Not a cheat. Not luck. Beats him. Takes him apart piece by piece and ends him. If they can work at enemy that might actually seriously threaten the batman (as opposed to Gotham with Ra's and Joker) then it might leave them open for a new direction for the drama.

rossatdi:
The rumours were from The Sun. A UK tabloid and worth less than the paper it's printed on.

All I'm saying is B A N E. Get rid of the mexican wrestler mask and the guy is perfect. Mafia/organised crime based. Actually dangerous. Can bust all the criminals out of Arkham.

In the Knightfall arc Bane actually beats Batman. Not a cheat. Not luck. Beats him. Takes him apart piece by piece and ends him. If they can work at enemy that might actually seriously threaten the batman (as opposed to Gotham with Ra's and Joker) then it might leave them open for a new direction for the drama.

As someone else said, all rumors at this point are null and void as there hasn't been any official say yet. I'm just stating my opinion based on the rolls I've seen the two play.

I've herd Riddler played by Jonny Dept, but that's all

Lol do you get all your ideas from SMBC, lol Just kidding I have never heard of them before that was funny.

Regardless I think Batmans great adversary is insanity, Lord knows hes fighting it in all the batman movies.

But your are most certainly right about the Ventriloquist, how is a puppet going to be useful...Answear: It isn't, it resembles the Ventriloquist's draw to crime, plus they say a spirit of a gangster is in it or something, I don't care. Batman more or less is also trying to fight the insanity of others, trying to make a scapegoat instead of fighting the insanity of himself.....don't know where I was going their.

Well the thing with the Riddler is he leaves the Riddles for sport, kinda like the joker thing its just this operatus Modi, or Whatever the Latin term is, that is his insanity. Even in some of his later stuff his insanity is driving to leave clues/riddles without his concious self noticing.

All the insanity is doing to these people are making a mode of operations, Joker's mode of operations is having no mode of operations. Thats kind of his deal, I guess you could count the Smile on the victims too.

But to those who say Clayface would be a good enemy I respectfully disagree, clayface isn't realistic, unless however it ends up like the Darkman, which could work. But other wise, No!

Zallest:
Can the riddler talk to animals now? I think Jim Carry would make a good riddler (agian) if he can be serious for more then two seconds.

He can, as proved by his appearance in number 23 (its a ok movie but hes serious in that)

it might invovle batman

From what rumors I have heard, the producers don't really want a penguin as they see it as a return to the campy style of previous 'inferior' films.

Personally I would like a convincing Riddler character, one in which his crippling need to place clues is played upon. Failing that, have a few villains that run amok,let batman get robin, with bane revealed towards the end, in the run up to film (possibly trilogy?) of the knightfall/knightsend.

any future villain is going to seem pre-amble compared to the joker,not enough of the other villains in the comics are well known enough to be as likley to be apprecieated either.

But i guess the sequals gotta be done right?

But really, they need to bring the Scarecrow back, just to have his ass kicked again.

I heard that Christopher Nolan wasn't going to direct it.
I also heard that Johnny Depp might be the Mad Hadder and Philip Seymour Hoffman might play The Penguin.

PirateKing:
I heard that Christopher Nolan wasn't going to direct it.
I also heard that Johnny Depp might be the Mad Hadder and Philip Seymour Hoffman might play The Penguin.

Yes he will be the Mad Hatter, in the Tim Burton Alice and Wonderland movie King lol. Though he hasn't said he's up for it, Nolan has stated just to PHS on a movie would be great.

What you have to keep in mind is that Batman is a villan now ( as far as gotham is concerned) as such I think it is going to be either a villan from the upper crust of gotham society, or someone in that society working with the next villan, to me that means penguin is a good candidate, i dont think they'll do the riddler because they already did the phycological thriller bit ( wasnt really a thriller but u get the point) could be somthing like someone creates baine and then a politician gains control of him and sends him after Batman then Baine gets out of control and well you get it, dont think they'll do freeze (just cuz of arnie in the george clooney version)

those are my thoughts

Having Ivy or Catwoman could replace Batman's love interest. Returning the love interest to Batman would give him conflict, something that existed but was subtlely detected in The Dark Knight.

The Penguin could work if Nolan wanted to keep the mob theme (which I suspect is something he'd want to do), but an intense, vigilant, sadistic Riddler would give the movie an intelligent insanity it deserves.

Batman vs. Superman.

BANE, MAKE IT BANE YOU MORONS As long as long as the plot isn't retarded like in DK (don't get me wrong, I really liked this movie, but the Joker's murder plot was just way too drawn out. If even one thing went wrong, his whole plan would've been compromised.)

I will be so upset if it's not The Riddler, easily one my my favourite villains of all times.
Finding an actor to match up to ledger would be a real challenge, as I'm not sure Depp would up to it.

Doesn't this thread already exist?