The Dark Knight Rises could have featured the Riddler, but a shift in genre saw the idea dropped when Christopher and Jonathan Nolan decided to go a slightly different way that left the character out of the picture. Although the Riddler had already appeared in Batman Forever (played in a maniacally gleeful way by Jim Carrey), and would do so again in Matt Reeves The Batman (portrayed in a much more grounded way by Paul Dano), Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy never used the character.
Jonathan Nolan has explained how the Riddler was a possible villain for the last of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies. Read More