Riddler Actor Paul Dano Teases ‘The Batman’ Script
By George Robbins
The story of the DCEU film series is one filled with a lot of mixed criticism regarding the films that have currently had theatrical releases. Most films in the DCEU have been met with lukewarm receptions and the studio is still trying to figure out the formula for their movies in order to make them work. For now they have been relying on people to see their films out of curiosity that perhaps the next one will end up being good after all. Perhaps with the next few movies they are putting out, the reviews for those films will be much more favorable than their previous films have been. In the meantime, people will just have to wait for those films to release when the time is right since many are still in development.
‘The Batman’ will be one of the newest DCEU films to release some time in 2021 and it will feature some of the older Batman villains. The movie will be Robert Pattinson’s first film as the titular character and we will be seeing Colin Farrell as Penguin, Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, and Paul Dano as the Riddler. Farrell has already stated he won’t really play a major part in the film, but Kravitz has already mentioned that she has had to put a lot of physical training into her role already to play it convincingly. Dano has made a point recently to ease that the script of the movie is a powerful one, which could mean it might be a movie people can get behind.
It is important that the DCEU gets its hands on a film that people will like and will get favorable reviews from critics if they want to maintain any faith in their franchise. While the script for the film might actually be pretty strong and the plot might be pretty well done, the problem remains as to the outcome of the finished film. Warner Bros. has been known thus far for interfering in some of the films which in turn results in films with plots and tones that seem incoherent. Films that they haven’t done this with have usually ended up being films that have been at least liked by the public. Hopefully ‘The Batman’ will be a film that will be as good as people hope it will be.