Armie Hammer

'The Lone Ranger’ actor Armie Hammer came very close to getting the keys to the Batmobile.

He was actually about to start shooting a ‘Justice League’ film, with him as Batman, but the project was cancelled.

In an interview with MTV, he recalled: "We had gotten a long way into pre-production. We were about to start shooting when the writer's strike happened at the end of 2007, and then the Australian government denied a 40 per cent tax rebate that they thought they were going to have, so a lot of things just when wrong. It's unfortunate, because the amount of work that was already done "