6) Tom Hanks
Hanks is another actor who has a hankering to play in the superhero movie sandbox. Like, really. Here’s what Hanks said in an interview in 2013.
“They don’t ask me and I keep trying … Come on, I can do it. Let me play a bad guy, let me play the bad guy against Batman. I’ll do anything, call me. They’ve never asked. What do I have to do? God, I want to throw a shield at somebody. I want that. And I don’t want to play the guy in the suit who tells the superheroes what’s going on, I don’t want to be that guy. ‘Well, you know Batman … Captain America, Iron Man, here’s what we’ve discovered’, I don’t want to be that guy. I want to get in there, I want to play The Flash or something like that. They’ll never give me a chance.”
Playing Norman Osborn isn’t quite “the bad guy against Batman” or The Flash, but by the sounds of it Hanks would be more than happy to settle for Spider-Man instead.
Someone get on that now!