10 Actors Who Confirmed They Were Almost Batman

3. Armie Hammer - Justice League Mortal

The Lone Ranger Armie Hammer
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If William Baldwin was disappointed with the way his Batman courtship ended, then Armie Hammer must've been full-on tilted.

In 2007, Warner Bros. commissioned a script for a movie called Justice League Mortal, and later that same year, they hired George Miller to direct it. The movie was intended to be separate from the Nolan films, and would instead take place within its own cinematic universe.

For this reason, a brand-new Batman needed to be cast - and that's where Hammer entered the picture.

The actor was actually cast as Batman - alongside D.J. Cotrona as Superman and Common as Green Lantern - and was all set to play the character in Miller's vision for Justice League, but sadly, the movie collapsed due to several complicated reasons, including the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

Hammer's name once again entered the Batman picture when the time came to replace Ben Affleck, although he wasn't so lucky that time.

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