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Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.
Paul Dano
The Mad Hatter
for The Mad Hatter in Gotham Knight (Visno DCEU Film #2)
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Film opens with an experienced Batman catching the Joker and dropping him off at Arkham Asylum, where we meet a pre-Scarecrow Dr. Crane and Dr. Harleen Quinzel. throughout the course of the film as we revisit Arkham, we will get scenes of Dr. Quinzel’s interactions with the Joker, setting up her fall from grace. the films primary antagonist is the often forgotten and underrated batman villain, Mad Hatter; and the plot will revolve around a series of robberies that Batman originally suspects to be Catwoman’s doing, but thru detective work discovers that it is done by unrelated thieves and then revealed to be the hatters doing all along thru his mind control, the multiple suspects setting up our reason to continuously go back to Arkham and have more interactions with the doctors about possible motives of suspects, etc. One of the suspects being a young Dick Grayson, a couple years from being orphaned, but we don’t meet him, he is only mentioned. We also meet Barbara Gordon at the Gotham Main Branch Library, where she works, setting up our first meeting of a future member of the bat family. the film ends with batman and alfred discovering the origins of the modified mind control tech being sourced from LexCorp, helping set up a connection to Superman’s universe
