10 Actors Almost Cast As Batman (Who Would Have Sucked Way More Than Affleck)

9. Tom Selleck

The former Magnum PI star doesn't have so much luck when it comes to missing out on iconic lead roles: though he was excellent in 3 Men & A Little Lady, he infamously got to the final stages of Indiana Jones, including shooting some test footage, before his selfish Magnum PI bosses pointed out his iron-clad contract that forbid such lucrative (and potentially beneficial to them) dalliances.

Why It Would Have Sucked

Even though he sported one of the most luxurious moustaches in the history of facial furniture, Selleck is just too clean cut to pull off the necessary edge. Casting Batman isn't as simple a process

Plus, there's the moustache issue. It would have been great to see a Bruce Wayne with a glorious lip adornment, because playboys can only be made better by such arrangements, but the logistics of having a moustache and wearing the Bat-cowl are just plain troublesome.

And though there inevitably has to be an element of suspension of belief that noone recognises Wayne in costume, if Blake is able to decipher that great secret from a smile, you have to think that a big moustache hanging out from under the cowl is going to be a dead give-away.

"Hey, doesn't Batman have a similar moustache to Bruce Wayne - you know, that billionaire guy who is basically one of two people in the whole of Gotham who still has a 'tash...?"