Check out the audition video for “Batman” comedian Barry Keoghan, who originally wanted to play the Riddler and ended up with an even more iconic role.
He should have chosen well! Before being cast in a completely different role in Batman, comedian Barry Keoghan originally wanted to play the Riddler! The comedian uploaded a video to reveal that he was interested in playing someone who also goes by the name Sphinx. At the time, he did not know that the character was supposed to be in the film.
That was fine, except that director Matt Reeves had already cast Jonah Hill (he would later be replaced by Paul Dano) and so Keoghan couldn’t join the project. Until the day he received the phone call quoted QG :
Barry Keoghan
Four months, no news. Then, while having dinner with a friend in New York, his agent called: ‘Batman wants you to play the Joker, but he hasn’t told anyone.’
Here’s his initial video for the Riddler role:
What do you think of his performance? did he convince you In the end, the comedian was not cast as the King of Puzzles, but it ended up being a nice consolation prize when he appeared as both the Joker at the end of the film and in an already available deleted scene.
With $770 million collected worldwide, including $3 million in France alone, the film will have a sequel called The Batman 2 for lack of an official title. It will apparently bring back Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, as well as Matt Reeves to write and produce, but the villain(s) have yet to be revealed. It doesn’t have a release date yet, but the DC Universe continues with Black Adam on October 19th:
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