10 Actors Who Confirmed They Were Almost Batman

Unlike the actors in the previous entries, Joaquin Phoenix lost out on playing Batman in a movie that was never actually made.

After the failure of Batman & Robin in 1997, Batman's big screen adventures went quiet while Warner Bros. figured out what to do with the character next. Eventually, they settled on Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins - more on that later - but at one point, they were considering letting Darren Aronofsky make a movie based on acclaimed comic-book story arc Batman: Year One.

And if this movie had gone ahead, Aronofsky wanted Joaquin Phoenix to be his Batman. Yep - the same Joaquin Phoenix who just won an Oscar for playing the Joker.

Unfortunately, the project fell apart when Aronofsky realized that the studio didn't share his vision, because, as we recently learned, they wanted someone completely different to play the title role...