One of many writers of Christopher Nolan’s Darkish Knight trilogy has revealed that studio bosses wanted to solid Leonardo DiCaprio as a key villain.

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David S Goyer wrote the three Batman diversifications alongside Nolan. He’s now defined how, on the premier of The Darkish Knight, the top of Warner Bros studio put ahead the suggestion of DiCaprio as an actor to seem in The Darkish Knight Rises.

Talking on the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, Goyer stated the boss prompt that DiCaprio ought to play The Riddler within the last movie within the trilogy. Nevertheless, Goyer went on to say that the suggestion was shortly dismissed.

He defined: “We had all these pitches…I keep in mind at The Darkish Knight [premiere], the top of Warner Bros stated, ‘You gotta do the Riddler. Leo [DiCaprio] because the Riddler.’ That’s not the best way we work – not to take something away from him.”

He defined that the themes of the movie written up would dictate finally the actors that will come to painting the characters and never the opposite means spherical. Ultimately, The Darkish Knight Rises went on to solid Tom Hardy within the position as Bane, whereas DiCaprio went on to work with Nolan in 2010s Inception.

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Elsewhere within the interview, Goyer went on to reveal how Jake Gyllenhaal was virtually solid within the Darkish Knight trilogy as Bruce Wayne/Batman. The position finally went to Christian Bale.

“We might chat about all kinds of issues…There have been quite a lot of individuals who had screen-tested, and I had advocated for Gyllenhaal. I imply, Gyllenhaal is superb, Christian Bale is superb, so who is aware of what.”

He added that footage of Gyllenhaal auditioning for the position in full Batman costume additionally exists.

DiCaprio is about to subsequent seem in Martin Scorsese’s new western crime drama Killers Of The Flower Moon, which follows the FBI investigation right into a sequence of Oklahoma murders within the Osage Nation.

Killers Of The Flower Moon premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant earlier this 12 months, the place it obtained a nine-minute standing ovation.

Alongside DiCaprio and Gladstone, the movie stars Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow and Tantoo Cardinal.