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This is a collage comparing the classic '40s Riddler comics art by Dick Sprang to my own Steve Buscemi Riddler concept, and showing that my Steve Buscemi Riddler concept was on the classic '40s Riddler comic book art from Dick Sprang, particularly the style of the question mark and belt, and Steve Buscemi has the same hairline and and head shape.

My Steve Buscemi Riddler concept is very much based on the Bill Finger and Dick Sprang Golden Age 1940s era comics Riddler that was a killer with deadly umbrellas. Although Dick Sprang's Riddler art was very cartoony, Steve Buscemi particularly resembles the Dick Sprang Riddler art from the comic books brought to life, with the same hairline and and head shape, etc. just put into Steve Buscemi's anatomical proportions, and retaining the basic look of the Riddler in a green question mark suit, but just not bright green tights covered in question marks, and adding additions to his wardrobe including a jacket, shoes, a pair of pants instead of tights, making Riddler more of a complete character like a person that could exist and less of a cartoon caricature of a real person. So my Steve Buscemi Riddler concept also combined elements of Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter in Fargo (1996) to make the Riddler more like a believable person, and less like a joke.

Steve Buscemi may have well been who Tim Burton would have cast as the Riddler. Tim Burton did cast Steve Buscemi in Big Fish (2003), as a poet and bank robber. It wasn't Tim Burton that wanted Robin Williams as the Riddler. It was Joel Schumacher that wanted Robin Williams to play the Riddler, Joel Schumacher's writer Janet Scott Batchler said that the Riddler was not part for the Batman Forever movie project until Joel Schumacher and writers Lee and Janet Scott Batchler took over, and Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever writers Lee and Janet Scott Batchler wrote the role with Robin Williams in mind. Robin Williams confirmed in November 19, 1993, that he had been talking to director Joel Schumacher about the project scheduled to film in September 1994, and he said that he thought playing the Riddler would be "nifty," but the script wasn't finished yet. Joel Schumacher was expecting the script to be in his hands on January 1, 1994.

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On January 2nd 1994 Des O'Connor asked Robin Williams, "You've got the Riddler coming up?" Robin Williams said, "Maybe. Yeah, if the script is good I'll do that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ufWTu…
After reading the script and the studio giving him a final deadline for his decision, Robin Williams turned down the role. He believed the character was too intellectual and not as comedic as the Riddler played by Frank Gorshin on the TV series. Robin Williams was reportedly also concerned that his Riddler would be overshadowed by the film's other foe, Tommy Lee Jones' Harvey Two-Face. So Joel Schumacher cast Jim Carrey instead. It took just 30 minutes of negotiation to cast Jim Carrey.
www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,30250…

Tim Burton was named producer on Batman Forever only because Tim Burton's Hallowe'en concept was used in one short scene in Batman Forever. After Batman Returns (1992) Christmas setting (the Christmas setting is also in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)), Tim Burton wanted the next one set at Hallowe'en (the Hallowe'en setting made it into Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Ed Wood (1994), and even Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995) retained the Hallowe'en setting for one short trick or treating scene). While Tim Burton was still the director of the project he reportedly wanted Brad Dourif as the Scarecrow in the third Batman movie (Brad Dourif was the teenage mental patient Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), he was Piter De Vries in Dune (1984), the voice of Chucky from the Child's Play/Chucky horror series (1988-current), deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member Clinton Pell in Mississippi Burning (1988), serial killer Luther Lee Boggs in the X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea" (1994) season 1, Dr. Gediman in Alien: Resurrection (1997), Gríma Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)).

Tim Burton didn't even like the movie title Batman Forever. Tim Burton said in his book Burton on Burton, "I always hated those titles like Batman Forever. That sounds like a tattoo that somebody would get when they're on drugs or something. Or something some kid would write in the yearbook to somebody else. I have high problems with some of those titles."

Description
This is a collage comparing the classic '40s Riddler comics art by Dick Sprang to my own Steve Buscemi Riddler concept, and showing that my Steve Buscemi Riddler concept was on the classic '40s Riddler comic book art from Dick Sprang, particularly the style of the question mark and belt, and Steve Buscemi has the same hairline and and head shape.

My Steve Buscemi Riddler concept is very much based on the Bill Finger and Dick Sprang Golden Age 1940s era comics Riddler that was a killer with deadly umbrellas. Although Dick Sprang's Riddler art was very cartoony, Steve Buscemi particularly resembles the Dick Sprang Riddler art from the comic books brought to life, with the same hairline and and head shape, etc. just put into Steve Buscemi's anatomical proportions, and retaining the basic look of the Riddler in a green question mark suit, but just not bright green tights covered in question marks, and adding additions to his wardrobe including a jacket, shoes, a pair of pants instead of tights, making Riddler more of a complete character like a person that could exist and less of a cartoon caricature of a real person. So my Steve Buscemi Riddler concept also combined elements of Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter in Fargo (1996) to make the Riddler more like a believable person, and less like a joke.

Steve Buscemi may have well been who Tim Burton would have cast as the Riddler. Tim Burton did cast Steve Buscemi in Big Fish (2003), as a poet and bank robber. It wasn't Tim Burton that wanted Robin Williams as the Riddler. It was Joel Schumacher that wanted Robin Williams to play the Riddler, Joel Schumacher's writer Janet Scott Batchler said that the Riddler was not part for the Batman Forever movie project until Joel Schumacher and writers Lee and Janet Scott Batchler took over, and Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever writers Lee and Janet Scott Batchler wrote the role with Robin Williams in mind. Robin Williams confirmed in November 19, 1993, that he had been talking to director Joel Schumacher about the project scheduled to film in September 1994, and he said that he thought playing the Riddler would be "nifty," but the script wasn't finished yet. Joel Schumacher was expecting the script to be in his hands on January 1, 1994.

articles.orlandosentinel.com/1…

On January 2nd 1994 Des O'Connor asked Robin Williams, "You've got the Riddler coming up?" Robin Williams said, "Maybe. Yeah, if the script is good I'll do that."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ufWTu…
After reading the script and the studio giving him a final deadline for his decision, Robin Williams turned down the role. He believed the character was too intellectual and not as comedic as the Riddler played by Frank Gorshin on the TV series. Robin Williams was reportedly also concerned that his Riddler would be overshadowed by the film's other foe, Tommy Lee Jones' Harvey Two-Face. So Joel Schumacher cast Jim Carrey instead. It took just 30 minutes of negotiation to cast Jim Carrey.
www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,30250…

Tim Burton was named producer on Batman Forever only because Tim Burton's Hallowe'en concept was used in one short scene in Batman Forever. After Batman Returns (1992) Christmas setting (the Christmas setting is also in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)), Tim Burton wanted the next one set at Hallowe'en (the Hallowe'en setting made it into Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Ed Wood (1994), and even Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995) retained the Hallowe'en setting for one short trick or treating scene). While Tim Burton was still the director of the project he reportedly wanted Brad Dourif as the Scarecrow in the third Batman movie (Brad Dourif was the teenage mental patient Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), he was Piter De Vries in Dune (1984), the voice of Chucky from the Child's Play/Chucky horror series (1988-current), deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member Clinton Pell in Mississippi Burning (1988), serial killer Luther Lee Boggs in the X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea" (1994) season 1, Dr. Gediman in Alien: Resurrection (1997), Gríma Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)).

Tim Burton didn't even like the movie title Batman Forever. Tim Burton said in his book Burton on Burton, "I always hated those titles like Batman Forever. That sounds like a tattoo that somebody would get when they're on drugs or something. Or something some kid would write in the yearbook to somebody else. I have high problems with some of those titles."