{"id":2053669,"date":"2025-09-27T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2053669"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:23:21","slug":"tom-hardy-nearly-starred-in-a-flop-dceu-movie-but-one-role-saved-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-hardy-nearly-starred-in-a-flop-dceu-movie-but-one-role-saved-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy Nearly Starred in a Flop Dceu Movie\u2014but One Role Saved His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Hardy<\/a> was almost part of the Dceu when he was considered for the role of Rick Flag in Suicide Squad<\/a> (2016). The Oscar-nominated actor was set to join the film but had to step away due to scheduling conflicts. Joel Kinnaman<\/a> eventually played Rick Flag instead.<\/p>\n

Hardy later explained that his commitments to Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a>\u2019s historical drama The Revenant<\/a> made it impossible to film Suicide Squad<\/a>. \u201c[The Revenant<\/a>] overshot by three months, and the production turned into a much bigger beast than we thought,\u201d Hardy said during the media tour for Mad Max: Fury Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While he regretted missing the chance to work on David Ayer<\/a>\u2019s script,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Hardy was almost part of the Dceu when he was considered for the role of Rick Flag in Suicide Squad (2016). The Oscar-nominated actor was set to join the film but had to step away due to scheduling conflicts. Joel Kinnaman eventually played Rick Flag instead. Hardy later explained that his commitments to Alejandro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2053669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tom-Hardy-Nearly-Starred-in-a-Flop-Dceu-Movie\u2014but-One.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}