12 Actors Who Stupidly Turned Down Comic Book Movies

8. Alec Baldwin Turned Down A Marvel Villain

Since his revival (partly thanks to Friends, partly thanks to his lesser inclination to say yes no matter how bad the film), Alec Baldwin has created one of those intangibly cool personas that would suit a good old fashioned megalomaniac villain, especially in a comic book movie. He's also got that disarming charm that stopped his role on 30 Rock from being the utterly irredeemable jerk he could have been. That's why it's such a shame that Baldwin confirmed to Howard Stern that he was offered a villain role in an upcoming Marvel movie and turned it down because of scheduling conflicts with his wife's womb:

"I don't want to undo somebody because they hired someone else to do it. But they asked me to play a villain in one of these Marvel Comics movies. I wasn't available, they wanted me to work a certain time. And because of my wife's pregnancy, I had to turn down two films this summer that I wanted to do."

With the growing bump in mind, that would mean he was offered a villainous role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, or Guardians Of The Galaxy: the brain would suggest The Winter Soldier and Robert Redford's role, but how great would it have been to see him as Thanos?