WB WANTED LEO DICAPRIO TO BE RIDDLER IN TDK but of Course nolan didnt want riddler!

Warner Bros. Wanted Leonardo DiCaprio To Be The Riddler In THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Screenwriter David Goyer tells Empire Magazine that Warner Bros. was immediately thinking of a main villain for the third Batman film as early as the premiere of The Dark Knight.

The website batman-news.com was going through the online version of Empire's article on The Dark Knight Rises and dug up a couple nuggets of information that were overlooked.

David Goyer said that at the premiere of The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. executives were already talking about a villain for The Dark Knight Rises — “it’s gonna be The Riddler, and we want it to be Leonardo DiCaprio…”.

Also, if you have a basic understanding of math you can calculate that the film will be under three hours based on the information below.

More than a third of the film, 1 hour, was shot in IMAX.

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The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters July 20th 2012 and stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate.