Zack Sharf Digital News Director Paul Dano is familiar with the comic book movie genre thanks to his acclaimed performance as Riddler opposite Robert Pattinson in “The Batman.” The Matt Reeves-directed tentpole was a box office hit with $772 million worldwide. That’s a mighty sum for the superhero genre, which took more than a few punches last year as entires like “Shazam: Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash,” “The Marvels,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” either disappointed at the box office or outright flopped.