
But maybe there’ll be something else down the line, maybe the Riddler. Williams added that even though he missed his chance on the Joker, there was another Batman villain he had his eye on, saying: They’ll say, ‘We’re sending it out to him,’ and you go for it. Williams explained in an interview posted by the take2marktv youtube channel: Williams was first tapped to play the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman, but plans later fell through.


It seems like this would have been the perfect fit for Williams, and he almost made it happen multiple times, but the longest-lasting torch he carried was for the Batman franchise. But the one genre the actor never broke into was comic book. They were mostly comedies, but he had his share of dramas, two of which landed him Oscar nominations, and one which gave him the one Academy Award of his career. The late comedy genius Robin Williams has a laundry list of hit films from his career.
