Armie Hammer: I’d Have Been A Terrible Batman

‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ star Armie Hammer thinks he had a lucky escape when production on George Miller’s ‘Justice League Mortal’ was cancelled in 2007 just weeks before cameras were due to roll.

Hammer, who was in line to play Batman, admits that at 19 he was too wet behind the ears to portray the Dark Knight.

“I would have made a terrible Batman,” says Hammer in our interview below.

“Really terrible. It’s too young. No-one wants to see a 19-year-old Batman. What can a 19-year-old do?”

Ironically Armie’s now starring opposite the current big screen Superman Henry Cavill in ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and Cavill agrees that his age would have been a problem, adding “It’d be like [Bruce Wayne’s] parents had just been shot last weekend, and so you became Batman.”

‘Mad Max Fury Road’ director George Miller came within weeks of shooting ‘Justice League Mortal’ featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and a whole host of other DC superheroes in Australia before the country pulled moviemaking tax breaks that effectively killed the project stone dead.

Hammer says it was the prospect of working with the ‘Mad Max’ mastermind that really drew him to the doomed superhero film.

Above: The cast and crew of ‘Justice League Mortal’

“The thing I really loved about that project was the fact that George Miller was doing it. I thought that it was really cool to create - this was before Marvel had done it and before DC had done it - it was going to be really cool to see a world where all of these superheroes were on camera for the first time, and I thought that was great.”

A documentary exploring the abandoned project titled ‘George Miller’s Justice League Mortal’ is currently in production.

‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ is in cinemas today. Watch a trailer below.

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