Mark Hamill says he has Mike Flanagan to thank for getting him to play live-action villains, like in upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk: "He thought outside the box"

Mark Hamill as the Major in The Long Walk.

As the voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Mark Hamill is no stranger to playing the villain, but he credits horror director Mike Flanagan with his move to playing live-action antagonists.

"I've been getting these parts recently, like in House of Usher, that would have been a routine character for me in voiceover, but to play an amoral, sociopathic lawyer, just pure evil, never on camera," Hamill said during The Long Walk panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, where GamesRadar+ is on the ground in Hall H.