Robin Williams Almost Played Joker & Riddler (Why He Didn't) The problem is, Warner Bros. basically just made the offer to bait Nicholson into signing on, and sure enough, after Nicholson was told Williams would take the role if he didn't, he relented and took the gig.
Warner Bros. initially offered Robin Williams the role of the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman, but he was rejected in favor of Jack Nicholson. Williams was a fan of the Batman comics and expressed great interest in bringing the Joker to life.
In the end, Williams turned down the role, and though an exact reason wasn't revealed, an insider at the time said Williams thought the Riddler was “too intellectual” and “not as comedic as the Riddler played by Frank Gorshin on the TV series” (via EW).
Williams was offered the part, but he turned it down. He didn't comment and sources vary on the exact reason. Some say that he rejected the offer after how he was duped by Warner Bros.
How do you follow the most notable Joker story of all time? That's easy, you kill Robin! “A Death in the Family,” which ran in Batman #426-429, hinges on a chilling scene where the Joker ambushes Robin (Jason Todd) and beats the Boy Wonder senseless with a crowbar, leaving him tied up in a warehouse with a bomb.
Inside the Story of Robin Williams Almost Playing the Joker
Who is the most traumatized Robin?
The Most Traumatized Robin Was Just Confirmed in One Scene - IMDb. Almost all the members of the Bat-family were shaped in some way by tragedy, especially those who wore the mantle of Robin at some point, but DC has just confirmed that Damian Wayne gets the worst trauma across the multiverse.
Batman comics have not always been so melancholic, however, and DC Comics now suggests that The Joker's horrific murder of Robin was an attempt to end the Dark Knight's lighthearted era.
In any and all of these cases, Red Robin knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman, because each of these three boys was, at one point, a Robin to Batman — as well as a ward to Bruce Wayne. As a result, it's natural that Bruce would be willing to let Red Robin know who he truly is, if he even ever had a choice.
In one of The Batman's final scenes, a foiled and jailed Riddler (Paul Dano) talks with an unseen figure in prison played by Barry Keoghan. Though brief, the scene leaves no doubt that Keoghan is playing Batman's greatest nemesis, The Joker.
A broken agreement over merchandising led to a public feud between Disney and Robin Williams, resulting in his recasting and a sour relationship. Disney's new chairman eventually issued a public apology to Williams, resolving the feud and bringing him back to voice the Genie in a later Aladdin installment.
Instead of Batman worrying about his safety, Robin is fired in this Year One story for spending too much time with the Titans. Batman is unhappy with Dick's performance, and it's possible that this is the same reason pre-Zero Hour as well.
Robin was intended to appear in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film but was ultimately cut to keep the film from becoming overcrowded. A new version of Robin, played by Marlon Wayans, was meant to appear in Batman Returns. but was similarly cut due to the cast and crew's lack of interest in giving Batman a sidekick.
Jim Carrey has made a statement calling the entire report fabricated and made up after a tiny blurb was mentioned in Dave Itzkoff's biography. Carrey acknowledges that there might have been some insecurity on the part of Williams, but there was absolutely no feud.
Jason Todd is the second Robin after Dick Grayson and the sixth Red Hood, who was subject to the first Red Hood, The Joker's torture. He was killed by Joker, but was later revived by the League of Assassins, becoming an enemy of his former mentor; Batman, all in a scheme to kill the Joker.
In addition to that, Joker was set many years before Margot Robbie's Harleen Quinzel became Harley Quinn, so it makes sense that she won't play the role in Joker 2, instead leaving the spot open for another actress and a completely different interpretation of Harley Quinn.
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy was built on a sense of realism that would make adding Robin almost impossible. Following Batman & Robin's disastrous reception, Batman had to be deconstructed for the Batman franchise to work again.
At the end of The Dark Knight, while trying to save Commissioner Gordon's son and stop Harvey Dent, Bruce falls from a great height suffers a leg injury that leaves him using a cane throughout the beginning of Rises.
Jason Todd was a street orphan until he met Batman after he had saved him from The Joker. Jason was trained by Batman and later became the second Robin, but he was beaten and tortured by the Joker, who sent Batman a video of the event and lied by telling him that Jason was dead.
Robin was mentally and physically tortured by The Joker, who attempted to make him into his own image. It became too much for Robin so he began to reveal secrets about Batman to Joker. Now his skin was chalk white, and his face was permanently changed into a giant grin, Robin was now called "J.J.".
Joker also brings up the fact he knows there has been more than one Robin. The one he hates most isn't Jason Todd, the Robin he murdered in cold blood; it's actually Tim Drake. Joker admits that he actually rather liked Jason.
Jarro grew attached to Batman and even often calls him “father”. He wanted to prove to Batman that he can be the best Robin and even convinced Batman to give him a chance. Jarro became the new Robin and was even said to be Batman's favorite Robin, admitted by Batman himself.
Robin the Boy Wonder was actually Dick Grayson, the youngest of a family of circus aerialists, who witnessed his mother and father plunging to their deaths from a sabotaged trapeze. This murder was also observed by wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne.
Jason Todd is often considered the darkest Robin, but DC already confirmed that Jason is the purest and the darkest may actually be Damian Wayne. Fans often point to Jason Todd as being the darkest and edgiest Robin, which makes sense considering the crimes he has committed.
