Summary Mark Hamill is in the cast of the upcoming 2025 SpongeBob SquarePants movie, and he’s replacing an O.G. voice actor who’s been with the show since season 1. Set to arrive in theaters on May 23, 2025, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants will see SpongeBob journeying deep into the ocean to battle the ghost of the Flying Dutchman. It’ll be the fourth feature-length entry in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise.
SpongeBob SquarePants' 2025 Movie Is Recasting Brian Doyle-Murray As The Flying Dutchman With Mark Hamill Brian Doyle-Murray has voiced the Flying Dutchman since 1999 The SpongeBob panel at Comic-Con has revealed that Hamill will be playing the ghost of the Flying Dutchman in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. The Flying Dutchman has been a recurring villain on the TV series since its very first season.
Hamill’s portrayal of the Joker is second only to Heath Ledger’s; it’s so pitch-perfect that he’s been recruited to play the Crown Prince of Crime across all kinds of different media, from animation to video games. He also voiced Merlin in Wing Commander, Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Skeletor in Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and the Mayor of Pejite in the English dub of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Since The Moth only had a speaking role in that one episode, it’s not too big of a deal that Hamill is returning to voice another character in the SpongeBob SquarePants universe. Plus, as a seasoned voice actor, Hamill makes himself unrecognizable in each role he takes on, so the layman won’t even notice that the new Flying Dutchman has the same voice as The Moth.