10 Actors Who Should Play Ben Affleck’s Batman Villains

5. Stanley Tucci As Hugo Strange

Other contenders: Bryan Cranston, Ben Kingsley, Hugo Weaving Hugo Strange is one of the oldest Batman villains out there, actually predating both the Joker and Catwoman. Professor Hugo Strange was once a brilliant psychologist who was hired by Gotham€™s finest to track down and bring to justice the one known as Batman; he would ultimately be driven mad by his own genius. Strange is a formidable foe and it's actually odd that we've yet to see the character on the big-screen. There was a time when the late great Robin Williams seemed like the ideal choice but today who better than Stanley Tucci? For his role as serial killer George Harvey in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones the actor stated that he had researched his role by watching documentaries and reading books by criminal profiler John E. Douglas about catching serial killers. This is the exact state of mind that is needed for this sort of role. Also, Tucci's mellow exterior is the perfect set up for a character that appears sane on the outside but is a psychotic, drooling animal utterly obsessed with capturing, defeating and revealing Batman.