Henry Cavill lost two major roles in the franchise to Robert Pattinson

When it comes to actors with multiple big-name franchises under their belt, few can compete quite like Robert Pattinson and Henry Cavill. Pattinson played Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the brilliant vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films. The most brooding Batman ever in “Batman”, He had a major franchise hat-trick. Meanwhile, Cavill has played Superman in Zack Snyder’s DC films, August Walker in Mission: Impossible — Fallout, and Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher series, as well as himself. A cameo as a version of Wolverine in “Deadpool & Wolverine”. (And that’s not including the fact that he also played Sherlock Holmes in Netflix’s “Enola Holmes” movies and was in the “Hellraiser” sequel!) Both men have serious star power despite their different approaches to acting and fame, and it turns out that once upon a time, it was over Pattinson gets two different roles that could have gone to Cavill.

Just hearing that the two were likely taking on some of the same roles leads one to wonder what they would do in each other’s shoes (Pattinson could potentially play Geralt the killer, but Superman? He could never). In fact, the two were young actors starting out and Pattinson ended up being the perfect fit for the role. But in another world? We almost saw Henry Cavill as Edward and Cedric.

According to old blog posts from “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer that were unearthed by the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via GQ UK) In conversation with Cavill, the author originally wanted Cavill to portray the film version of Edward Cullen, but he dropped out of the running as a potential spark when he reached the age of 24.

In her July 2007 blog post, Meyer lamented that Cavill had aged because she could not consider Edward to be older than 21, saying “The most disappointing thing for me is losing the perfect Edward. Henry Cavill is now twenty-four years old. Let’s We have a quiet moment to grieve…” A few months later, Pattinson, who was just insisting on the threshold of age, was announced as Edward. Meyer also liked the idea of ​​Cavill playing Carlisle Cullen, the adoptive father of the Cullen vampire clan, a role that eventually went to “Nurse Jackie” star Peter Facinelli. Maybe he can get a chance to play Colin V A proposed (and perhaps ill-advised) “Twilight” revival. Fortunately, there seems to be no disagreements between Cavill and Pattinson, as Cavill explained:

“I didn’t know they wanted to cast me, and the Internet wasn’t the tool it is now, so I didn’t find out until later. I thought, ‘Well, that would have been great.’

Cavill also auditioned for the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter, but… Pattinson’s audition seemed to be a little more magicalBecause the role went to him. Since he was apparently set to play Superman in James Gunn’s DCEU film, Cavill joked that there might be a Batman and Superman drop in the future to take care of “rivalries,” but these days, it looks like that won’t happen either.

It appears Cavill’s time as Superman is pretty much over David Corenswet wearing the abaya For the foreseeable future of the DC Universe, he’s out as Geralt as well He was replaced for the final season With Thor’s talented little brother, “Hunger Games” star Liam Hemsworth. However, he is still attached to the film “Enola Holmes 3”, in which he reprises his role as the father of the famous young detective, who is also… Working on the “Voltron” movie and the “Highlander” reboot.and an adaptation of “Warhammer 40,000” for Amazon. It looks like Cavill fans are in for a treat, with plenty of big franchise projects on the way.

Pattinson has moved toward more artistic and indie projects since the end of his time as Edward, trying to leave young adult series behind him, so the only big franchise in his future is a role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Batman: Part II,” planned for a 2026 release. Fortunately He, too, is still giving Wild and strange showsAlso, like Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming movie “Mickey 17”. Whether you’re interested in seeing Cavill reload his gun arms and looking handsome or watching Pattinson glide around the scene like a weird little goblin, the future looks bright.