10 Things You Need To Know About Tim Burton's Batman Forever

7. A New Take On The Riddler Was Almost Cast

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Batman 3 very nearly also featured another different take on a character who wound up appearing in Joel Schumacher's first take on the Caped Crusader. Jim Carrey's Riddler €“- real name Edward Nygma, fooling nobody €“ was a characteristically pantomime villain, with the actor's usual over-the-top performance occasionally falling into something more sinister and genuinely disturbing.

Sinister and genuinely disturbing were the watchwords for the version of The Riddler Burton hoped to bring to live in Batman Continues (ugh), with this grittier Edward Nygma foregoing the green tights and ostentatious cane in favour of having a question mark shaved into the side of his hair.

That's more in line with the Nolan style of Bat-Villain, and they had a similar approach to casting, with the favourite to play the part of The Riddler being either Monkees lead singer Micky Dolenz or the late great Robin Williams. The latter of whom would be perfect but, sadly, ended up turning the part down.

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