12 Actors Who Should Play The Joker In Scorsese's Origin Movie

6. Elijah Wood

Given the pattern of Batman movies casting unpredictably - see Michael Keaton, Heath Ledger and Jared Leto - there has to be some allowance for picking completely left-field candidates. And they don't come more left-field than Elijah Wood, who was the archetypal morally good hero in Frodo Baggins.

But look beyond that role and Wood has a rich vein of more interesting, more challenging roles, often playing with serial killer characters in a way that consciously clashes his "nice guy" looks and disarming charm with a dangerous current under the surface.

If he was invited to bring some of his performance as Kevin in Sin City to the table as whoever the Joker is before he goes full clown, it would be legitimately great, and so would the reaction from fans at being duped by a stunt casting once more.