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superhero movies play a huge role in pop
culture today and when a new movie is
announced fans need to know almost
immediately who the studio's have cast
for their favorite characters with so
many actors clamoring to play these
iconic heroes and villains changes are
often made at the drop of a hat one day
you hear your favorite actor will play
your favorite comic-book character and
then the next day they're out I'm sorry
I want to get off on the wrong foot or
look in the pants in the eye when you
hear Christian Bale of Batman Andrew
Garfield is Spider Man Henry Cavill as
Superman Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Robert Downey jr. is Iron Man it's not
hard to imagine them playing the part
since they all killed it in their role
but these characters could have easily
been played by other actors in this list
we'll take a look at some a listers who
lost out to portraying classic comic
characters check out these 10 actors who
almost became a Marvel superhero and
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our video Emily Blunt as Black Widow
Scarlett Johansson has impressed Marvel
fans as the former KGB spy turned SHIELD
agent Natasha Romanova but believe it or
not she wasn't the first choice for the
role when help car running Emily Blunt
was actually set to play the role of
Black Widow she literally had the role
in Iron Man 2 but due to contract
obligations with thoughts she had to
drop out instead of being our Black
Widow she co-starred in Gulliver's
Travels alongside Jack Black the gray
Scott as Wolverine we've seen Hugh
Jackman as the clawed and rugged hero
Wolverine for 17 years now but it would
surprise you to know he wasn't the
original choice this is a disturbing
liver in Bryan Singer's first x-men film
Dougray Scott was cast as Logan start
was reportedly handpicked by Tom Cruise
to play the villain in Mission
Impossible 2 which made it impossible
for the actor to stay on board with
x-men Viggo Mortensen as Wolverine
again it's hard to imagine Wolverine not
being played by Hugh Jackman but there
are a few names that had potential to do
the role justice yeah I know they're not
ready storm but slide from Russell Crowe
who was singers first choice and Dougray
Scott who is cast in the part another
actor was a strand of a hair close to
becoming Wolverine that is none other
than
Aragorn himself Viggo Mortensen luckily
we've seen Mortensen in action as
Aragorn
so picturing him as Logan is no problem
at all while Mornington never had the
chance to play the regenerative squad
mutant the actor will always be
remembered as the Ranger of the North
Aragorn from Lord of the Rings Jim
Caviezel as Cyclops before James Marsden
was cast as Cyclops and Bryan Singer's
x-men the role was offered to Jim
Caviezel the actor apparently beat out a
long list of a list actors who additions
for the roles including Thomas Jane Owen
Wilson Edward Norton Jude Law and a
bunch of others unfortunately Caviezel
had to drop out due to his commitment to
the film frequently apparently this
movie also disqualified him from getting
the Superman role in zingers Superman
Returns we get zingers didn't want Jesus
playing the Man of Steel Tom Cruise as
Iron Man before Robert Downey jr. landed
the role as billionaire playboy Tony
Stark Tom Cruise was a frontrunner to
play the mechanical hero I am Iron Man
the actor and the studio execs were in
talks for a while the crews eventually
lost interest in the film and walked
away he just didn't feel like it was a
project he could commit himself to 100%
it all worked out for the best
as Downey jr. is perhaps the best Tony
Stark Marvel could get Jon Favreau also
looked into casting Clive Owen and Sam
Rockwell in the role John Krasinski and
Captain America Chris Evans has
dominated the role of Steve Rogers aka
Captain America but there was another
actor close to nabbing the role John
Krasinski more popularly known as Jim
from the office was the highest name on
the list of actors to play cast he beat
out actors like Channing Tatum Ryan
Phillippe Mike Vogel and Garrett Hedlund
then from out of nowhere Chris Evans
jumps into the role without even having
to audition and the rest is history
Channing Tatum has thorne a lot of
people know that Tom Hiddleston
auditioned for the role of Thor and
brothers Liam and Chris Hemsworth
battled against each other for the role
as well but little know that actor and
dancer Channing Tatum was a top choice
for the god of thunder
the Magic Mike star reportedly met with
director Kenneth Branagh to talk about
the role all went well but the Irish
director ended up going with the eldest
Hemsworth unfortunately the hammer
Mjolnir is out of reach for Tatum but if
you're dying to see him as a superhero
you'll get your chance when he plays the
mutants gambit Sigourney Weaver as Emma
Frost the initial plan was to bring
Frost in as an empath villainous who
would manipulate Jean Grey and later on
joined magneto to help undo the heroes
but when singer left to focus on
Superman Returns
so did Sigourney Weaver's appearance as
I'm a fraud the director wanted Weaver
as the villainous but her appearance was
scrapped from the script the character
was brought back for x-men first class
but January Jones was given the role
Rachael Leigh Cook as rogue while Anna
Paquin didn't give us the butt-kicking
tough-as-nails rogue from the comics she
did bring the southern belle charm to
life but it will interest you to know
that Bryan Singer offered the role to
another actress first she's all that
star Rachel Leigh Cook was offered the
role of rope before Paquin in the 2000
x-men movie the actress turned it down
because she didn't like the idea of
seeing too much CGI in the film and went
on to star in the musical comedy josie
and the pussycats instead a lot of
actors as spider-man Spidey is arguably
one of the most recognized Marvel
superheroes around there's no surprise
that lots of actors jump at the chance
to play the webslinger
nice to have a fan many big-name actors
were in talks to play spider-man
including Tom Cruise Leonardo DiCaprio
Jude Law and Heath Ledger even actors
who were in previous spider-man movies
wanted the role for themselves
James Franco read for the lead in Sam
Raimi's spider-man but was ultimately
beaten to the prize by Tobey Maguire
Franco confessed that he was
disappointed when the director called
him to let him know that he didn't get
the part though he softened the blow
when he instead offered to him the role
of Harry Oz
son of the Green Goblin and Peter
Parker's best friend Harry Potter star
Daniel Radcliffe recently revealed he
was interested in becoming the new MCU
spider-man while giving his fellow
countryman Tom Hollands a
congratulations on landing the part he
talked about how he wanted to be the new
hero but also mentioned how it was now
out of reach I would have made a good
spider-man but the boat has sails on
that one said Radcliffe I'm not sure if
I'd sign up for something that was
another seven or eight films or ten
years but a shorter franchises yeah what
do you think of our list are there any
other Marvel superheroes we've met
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