Leonardo DiCaprio may be keeping his distance from the superhero genre today, but he was the studios’ favorite to play some crucial Cbm characters. At the start of his career, he was offered the role of Robin in Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever. During the Dark Knight trilogy, Warner Bros. wanted Christopher Nolan to make The Riddler the central villain of the third film. They wanted Nolan to bring DiCaprio into the film for the same thing.
WB wanted Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio to play a role in The Dark Knight Rises
However, Nolan did not give in to the studio’s demands and insisted that he was working with a villain who suited the story. Nolan went on to work with DiCaprio in Inception, which remains the actor’s highest-paying gig to this day.
Warner Bros. tried to convince Christopher Nolan to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as the Riddler
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