Suicide Squad: 10 Actors Who Could Replace Tom Hardy

7. Aaron Eckhart

To some, Tom Hardy dropping out of Suicide Squad isn't the surprising thing. The surprise is that he was cast in the first place, since he'd already played a pretty iconic character in a DC film recently with Bane in The Dark Knight Rise. So why was he so eager to be in another? Apparently he wasn't, but it probably would've worked. He spent most of the Batman film behind a mask, after all. So what's to stop Aaron Eckhart from pulling the same trick? He played Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, but half of his screen time (no pun intended) was in full Two-Face make up. And again, he's a great actor with the all-American Rick Flag look. He's also, like Pine, somebody in search of a franchise. It's just that his latest attempt was an entirely more embarrassing failure, as I, Frankenstein earned about as much from the box office as critics €“ ie very little. He's basically in the same position as Pine, just older.