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Last month, Prodbynieco did an art of Robin Williams as The Riddler, and he thinks he's Tim Burton's choice for the role in his Batman 3 and have The Riddler with a question mark shaved into his head before he was fired, but that's not really the case. It was Warner Bros., Joel Schumacher, and the Batchlers who wanted Robin Williams to play The Riddler, since they already had Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face.

In the first two drafts of Batman Forever by the Batchlers, they gave Riddler the name of Lyle Heckendorf, not Edward Nygma. The idea was that Edward Nygma was an alias, and the Batchlers gave Riddler the Lyle Heckendorf name. His company was not NygmaTech. His name was Lyle Heckendorf. So, the name of the company was HeckTech. And in the screenplay, he tests his invention on his landlady. And Joel came up with a scene that was not in the final film where Lyle stalks Bruce Wayne and Chase Meridian at the circus, where they're about to see the Graysons die, and in order to get closer to Bruce, Lyle stole clothes from a fortune telling leprechaun, which form the basis of the Riddler outfit. And he has magenta hair. Akiva Goldsman changes it back to Edward Nygma when he did revisions, and he talked to Robin about The Riddler in his kitchen in San Francisco, California.

The Batchlers knew somebody who worked with Robin and knew Robin that somebody had to talked to him about it. He read the script. He wanted to do it, and the Batchlers were like, 'one of the greatest moments of our lives. Robin Williams is the one we wrote for.' He wanted to do it, and his agency said, "Don't worry. They'll have to come to you. Nobody else in town who does what you do." And his agency said, "If Michael Keaton is getting $15 million and the percentage of the gross and the percentage of merchandising, we'll be asking for our client too?" And Warner Bros. had a heavy heart and said, "Alright, forget the percentage of the gross, we're spending $30 million on the two actors, and we didn't start shooting yet. Let's think about recasting." And they made an offer to Jim Carrey that we get, and Robin found out about it when he read it in the trades. It also said that WB used Robin to trick Jack Nicholson into signing on as The Joker in Batman 89.

It's also Jim Carrey's idea of The Riddler with a question mark shaved into his head. An old Empire interview revealed that Carrey had been playing around with an idea of himself with a question mark shaved into his head, but that didn't go through, because Carrey was going through a divorce court at the time, and he cannot show up in court with a question mark shaved into his head. He was involved with actress Laruen Holly at the time.

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Last month, Prodbynieco did an art of Robin Williams as The Riddler, and he thinks he's Tim Burton's choice for the role in his Batman 3 and have The Riddler with a question mark shaved into his head before he was fired, but that's not really the case. It was Warner Bros., Joel Schumacher, and the Batchlers who wanted Robin Williams to play The Riddler, since they already had Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face.

In the first two drafts of Batman Forever by the Batchlers, they gave Riddler the name of Lyle Heckendorf, not Edward Nygma. The idea was that Edward Nygma was an alias, and the Batchlers gave Riddler the Lyle Heckendorf name. His company was not NygmaTech. His name was Lyle Heckendorf. So, the name of the company was HeckTech. And in the screenplay, he tests his invention on his landlady. And Joel came up with a scene that was not in the final film where Lyle stalks Bruce Wayne and Chase Meridian at the circus, where they're about to see the Graysons die, and in order to get closer to Bruce, Lyle stole clothes from a fortune telling leprechaun, which form the basis of the Riddler outfit. And he has magenta hair. Akiva Goldsman changes it back to Edward Nygma when he did revisions, and he talked to Robin about The Riddler in his kitchen in San Francisco, California.

The Batchlers knew somebody who worked with Robin and knew Robin that somebody had to talked to him about it. He read the script. He wanted to do it, and the Batchlers were like, 'one of the greatest moments of our lives. Robin Williams is the one we wrote for.' He wanted to do it, and his agency said, "Don't worry. They'll have to come to you. Nobody else in town who does what you do." And his agency said, "If Michael Keaton is getting $15 million and the percentage of the gross and the percentage of merchandising, we'll be asking for our client too?" And Warner Bros. had a heavy heart and said, "Alright, forget the percentage of the gross, we're spending $30 million on the two actors, and we didn't start shooting yet. Let's think about recasting." And they made an offer to Jim Carrey that we get, and Robin found out about it when he read it in the trades. It also said that WB used Robin to trick Jack Nicholson into signing on as The Joker in Batman 89.

It's also Jim Carrey's idea of The Riddler with a question mark shaved into his head. An old Empire interview revealed that Carrey had been playing around with an idea of himself with a question mark shaved into his head, but that didn't go through, because Carrey was going through a divorce court at the time, and he cannot show up in court with a question mark shaved into his head. He was involved with actress Laruen Holly at the time.