Tag: Edward Nygma

PENGUIN Meets NYGMA on GOTHAM

courtesy Warner Brothers
courtesy Warner Brothers

Oswald Cobblepot is on the rise as his former boss Fish Mooney falls on Gotham. The mole is playing mobster against mobster on his bloody path to becoming the infamous Batman villain Penguin.

Robin Lord Taylor teases what’s coming up in his series including a monumental meeting between the two men who will become Penguin and Riddler (played by Cory Michael Smith.)

“We haven’t done a lot yet, and I don’t know what’s coming, but Edward Nygma and Oswald finally meet, and it is, hands-down, one of the top three things that we’ve shot in the whole series. Continue reading PENGUIN Meets NYGMA on GOTHAM

CORY MICHAEL SMITH of GOTHAM

Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma in Gotham courtesy Warner Entertainment and Fox
Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma in Gotham courtesy Warner Entertainment and Fox

Gotham is the upcoming television series revealing the origins of Batman’s greatest allies and enemies.

 

When is a Riddler not the Riddler?

 

When he’s still E. Nygma.

 

Cory Michael Smith plays Edward Nygma on the upcoming Fox series set after the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents. The theater breakout is breaking into comics culture history by helping share the back story of an infamous villain.

In a break from comics continuity, Nygma will be a forensic scientist with the Gotham Police Department in the new Fox series. I asked Smith where is Nygma’s head is as we join the story. Continue reading CORY MICHAEL SMITH of GOTHAM

GOTHAM Promotes Three Actors

Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment
Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment

Fox revealed Gotham will air Mondays at 8pm this Fall. The Batman prequel series stars Ben McKenzie as rookie detective Jim Gordon and Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock.

 

Younger versions of Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Penguin and eventually the Joker will appear in the series in which Bruce Wayne is still only 12 years old.

 

It was revealed today that the following three actors have been promoted to series regulars: Continue reading GOTHAM Promotes Three Actors

GOTHAM Casts Riddler

The Joker's Asylum: The Riddler cover courtesy DC Comics
The Joker’s Asylum: The Riddler cover courtesy DC Comics

The riddle answered!

 

The upcoming Batman-themed series Gotham will include the genius Edward Nygma who will become the Riddler.

 

Warner Brothers and DC Comics announced Cory Michael Smith has been cast as Nygma – described as a “brilliant young forensic scientist working for the Gotham PD with a penchant for speaking in… rather cryptic language. Inquisitive, eccentric and outgoing — yet socially awkward — he wants to be liked, but he doesn’t quite know how.” Continue reading GOTHAM Casts Riddler