Can you imagine someone else playing the role of Wolverine other than Hugh Jackman? How about Tom Cruise playing Iron Man? Would you still love Tony Stark, 3000??
Marvel and DC films have carved the careers of several great actors like Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt and made them superstars. While many actors would kill to be a part of this family, these actors rejected the roles. Whatever their reasons, these 17 actors chose to pass the opportunity to play a superhero!
Before he bowled us over with his performance as DC villain Joker, Marvel tried many times to get their hands on Phoenix, but he kept sliding out of their grasp. Not just the role of Hulk, but Joaquin Phoenix also rejected Dr Strange.
Robert Downy Jr is now synonymous to Tony Stark and Iron Man. We can't even imagine someone else in that role, can we??But did you know Tom Cruise was one of the first choices for the role? His demands for vanity and Iron Man visor be redesigned to make his face more visible couldnĄŻt be fulfilled and hence he turned down the role.
Pierce Brosnan could have been the Caped Crusader alias Batman, but he turned down the role. Does he regret it? Of course, he does.?
"I just couldn't really take it seriously, any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously," he said about his choice of rejecting the role. "That was my foolish take on it. It was a joke, I thought. But how wrong was I?"
Sandra Bullock could have played Wonder Woman about a decade ago. Hollywood has been promising for decades to make a movie about the Amazonian princess. "There's other people much better suited to play Wonder Woman than me. I'll just do it at home, at night, in my little Underoos," Bullock had told MTV.?
Before Viola Davis was roped in for the role of Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad, Oprah was approached by Warner Bros for the role. Why she didn't end up playing it onscreen remains a mystery.
Blunt was already on contract for GulliverĄŻs Travels and so even when she wanted to play Black Widow, she couldn't be cast in the role.?Blunt would have aced the role pretty well with her sass and style.?
We would probably kill to watch Leo playing a superhero, right? The Inception and Titanic star was in fact offered Spider-Man movie which was to be directed by James Cameron. He event skimmed through the screenplay before turning it down. Leo doesn't regret his choice.
McConaughey could have played the role of Peter Quill alias Star Lord's biological evil father Ego, the Living Plant in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. The role eventually went into Kurt Russell's kitty.?
Just imagine Robin Williams being a part of Heath Ledger starrer Chistopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. The film would have been much greater than it already is. Not only the role of Riddler in Batman Forever (1995) but he was also offered the role of Joker in Tim BurtonĄŻs Batman (1989).?
It wasn't Williams who rejected them, he said both opportunities got "screwed."
Russell Crowe was first approached for the role of Wolverine, but he turned down and suggested Hugh Jackman's name instead.
Will Smith came closer to playing the role of Clark Kent once. Why he rejected it? "The script came, and I was like, 'There is no way I'm playing Superman! Because I had already done Jim West [of Wild Wild West], and you can't be messing up white people's heroes in Hollywood!", he was quoted as saying by MTV.
Hopkins missed out Batman movie not once but twice. Not only did he miss playing the role of Mr Freeze in Batman & Robin, he was also in the running for Alfred in Nolan's Dark Knight.
Not Ben Affleck, but his longtime buddy Matt Damon was the first choice to play Matt Murdock in the 2003 film Daredevil. Why he rejected the film? He thought the role didn't have much to offer.
Bryan Cranston was riding high on the success of Breaking Bad when he was offered the role of mutant Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class, but he chose Ryan Gosling's Drive instead.
Rachel McAdams of The Notebook fame was the first choice for Pepper Potts and not Gwyneth Paltrow who has recently retired from the role.
Joseph Gordon Levitt couldn't accept the offer to play Peter Quill AKA Star Lord In Guardians of the Galaxy because he was busy with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
It might sound a little impossible now but before Ledger was offered the role of Joker, he was being considered for Batman. He, then, had no interest of playing a superhero. However, when Nolan decided to make the triology, he signed up for the part he was offered, even before he script was even completed.