How Long Riddlers Plan Had Been In Works Revealed By The Batman Director

Editors note: The following contains spoilers for The Batman In Matt Reeves The Batman, several of Gotham City s most dangerous players have come out to playincluding The Penguin (Colin Farrell), Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), and Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz)but only one of them wants to play a truly deadly game. The Riddler (Paul Dano) poses a dangerous threat not just to the criminal elite in Gotham City, but to Batman s secret identity, as he enacts his complex plan to uncover the truth about Thomas Wayne s Gotham Renewal Corporation. Before The Riddler was The Riddler, he was a simple accountant by the name of Edward Nashton who had grown up an orphan just like Bruce Wayne. Only he wasn t born with a silver spoon in his mouth or a gilded mansion protecting him from the cruel reality of the world. The film doesn t delve very deep into his backstory, but it makes clear that something happened while he was working as a forensic accountant that triggered his desire t