10 Movie Villains You Wish Got More Screen Time

Another Sam Rockwell role, Wild Bill Wharton was The Green Mile's (1999) most pivotal and criminally under-seen player.

For what's it's worth, the Stephen King adaptation is a near-perfect movie, full to bursting with impeccable characters, emotional beats and truly shocking twists. Everyone remembers John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) telling Tom Hanks how to spell his name, and his tragic, needless death, but few talk about Wild Bill.

Bill is barely in the film. When he is, he's portrayed as psychologically disturbed, violent, and without remorse for his crimes. After his death, Coffey reveals to Paul Edgecombe (Hanks) that the murder he is being executed for was actually perpetrated by Wild Bill.

It's a emotionally harsh reveal, as Bill is now dead and there's no way of proving Coffey's innocence, but it makes you wonder why the film didn't focus slightly more on Wild Bill. As horrid and inexcusably evil as he was, Rockwell made him a blast to watch, and it's clear on re-watches that the reveal would have been much more affecting had audiences got to know the real killer a bit more.