10 Actors Who Almost Played Spider-Man At One Point

5) Charlie Sheen

We kid you not. Charlie Sheen was almost Spider-Man. Well, at least according to the man himself.

Apparently, Sheen tried to get the movie rights for the character back in the 80s, and pitched the idea to Orion – the studio that later made Oscar winners Platoon and Silence of the Lambs. Here’s what he later explained:

“I had an office at Orion at the time, and I brought them Spider-Man. I said, ‘Look, in a couple of years, I’ll be too old to play Peter Parker.’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we’re just thinking that cartoons are not the future, comic books are not the future.’ And I said, ‘But it’s Spider-man, I’m perfect.’ And they were like, ‘Nah, we’re gonna wait.’”

Unfortunately for Sheen, there was no “winning” this role.