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11 Actors You Didn’t Know Nearly Played Superman

Come this October, Teen Wolf star Tyler Hoechlin will play Superman in a guest spot on Supergirl. In doing so, he will join the long line of actors who have donned the red cape of the Kryptonian hero on the small and silver screens.

3) Brendan Fraser

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After all these actors turned it down, Superman: Flyby did eventually find a willing star – The Mummy actor Brendan Fraser. The trouble this time, though, was that the studio weren’t keen on him. He later revealed that:

“It seems as if then the big monster studio machine and all the machinations behind it, all the cogs and wheels rolling, suddenly it went from an ‘offer’ to ‘subject to a screen test’ blah, blah, blah, ‘subject to approval’…”

Apparently what drew Fraser to the role is exactly what made fans glad the movie never happened – the re-imagining of the Superman mythos. Written by future Star Trek/Wars director J.J. Abrams, Flyby would have made Supes a martial arts expert, kept Krypton alive and made Lex Luthor a Kryptonian secret agent!