{"id":33803,"date":"2015-12-04T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=33803"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:17:32","slug":"neil-patrick-harris-as-the-riddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/neil-patrick-harris-as-the-riddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Patrick Harris Expresses Interest in Playing the Riddler for Batman Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While another solo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Batman&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Batman<\/strong><\/a> film, possibly directed by the actor who&#8217;s currently playing him, Ben Affleck, is far from confirmed, it doesn&#8217;t stop fans from speculating.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a new actor put in for a role in Gotham City, and it has fans all abuzz.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Neil Patrick Harris<\/strong> was asked on Twitter if he&#8217;d be up to playing the Riddler aka Edward Nigma in the film, this was his response:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Totally, but only if neither of us have to go full frontal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoneGirlGoods?src=hash\">#GoneGirlGoods<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jezaVa7MHW\">https:\/\/t.co\/jezaVa7MHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActuallyNPH\/status\/671830433978560512\">December 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Be still my heart! As the Riddler&#8217;s my favorite Batman villain, I&#8217;d love to see him in another movie.<\/p>\n<p>I was excited when Jim Parsons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/03\/20\/jim-parsons-wants-to-play-the-riddler\/\">expressed interest<\/a>, and now I&#8217;m excited all over again!<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;full frontal&#8221; bit, that&#8217;s a reference to the movie he did with Affleck last year, <em>Gone Girl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He certainly has the sharp wit, build, and after seeing him as Barney Stinson in <em>How I Met Your Mother,<\/em> the narcissism to pull off the character. Not to mention he&#8217;s already played a supervillain before in <em>Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And, oh yeah, he&#8217;s also dressed up as the Riddler already!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy Halloween from Gotham City!! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/3gzmG44iEf\" class=\"broken_link\">pic.twitter.com\/3gzmG44iEf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActuallyNPH\/status\/528298961304817664\">October 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Plus he&#8217;s no stranger to the DC Universe, having played Nightwing in <em>Batman: Under the Red Hood,<\/em> The Flash in <em>Justice League: The New Frontier,<\/em> Ray Thompson in <em>Justice League,<\/em> and Two-Face in <em>Robot Chicken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see NPH as the Riddler? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/entertainthis\/2015\/12\/04\/neil-patrick-harris-the-riddler-ben-affleck-batman-gone-girl\/76775942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While another solo Batman film, possibly directed by the actor who&#8217;s currently playing him, Ben Affleck, is far from confirmed, it doesn&#8217;t stop fans from speculating. Today, a new actor put in for a role in Gotham City, and it has fans all abuzz. When Neil Patrick Harris was asked on Twitter if he&#8217;d be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[118,2423,3145,112,3572,296],"yst_prominent_words":[9103,8722,5950,6023,6413,7924,7905,27637,27635,9953,9024,16716,27633,27631,27630,27636,27634,27632,9311,9096],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64490,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33803\/revisions\/64490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33803"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}