Howard The Duck Starred Robin Williams For A Time, But The Reason He Quit Makes Total Sense

And you also have to remember that Howard the Duck came out in 1986. Sure, Robin Williams was a big TV star with roles on shows like Happy Days and Mork and Mindy, but besides Popeye and The World According to Garp, Robin Williams hadn’t really exploded on the film scene yet. I could just imagine Williams looking at that script, and then thinking, are you kidding me? I have to deliver lines like this perfectly just so I can make a duck look good? No thanks, I’m out, or something of that nature. In the end, I think Chip Zien did a great job with his performance and I couldn’t imagine anybody else voicing the duck. Not even Robin Williams.