In the case of actors who’ve a number of big-name franchises below their belt, few can compete fairly like Robert Pattinson and Henry Cavill. Pattinson starred as doomed Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace,” sparkly vampire dreamboat Edward Cullen within the “Twilight” motion pictures, and the broodiest Batman of all time in “The Batman,” incomes himself a significant franchise hat trick. In the meantime, Cavill has performed Superman in Zack Snyder’s DC movies, August Walker in “Mission: Unattainable — Fallout,” Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s “The Witcher” sequence, and even had a cameo as a model of Wolverine in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” (And that is not counting the truth that he is additionally performed Sherlock Holmes in Netflix’s “Enola Holmes” motion pictures and was in a “Hellraiser” sequel!) Each males have critical star energy regardless of their very completely different approaches to appearing and fame, and it seems that after upon a time, Pattinson ended up getting two completely different roles which may have in any other case gone to Cavill.

Simply listening to that the 2 have been probably up for a number of the identical franchise roles leads one to questioning how they’d do in each other’s footwear (Pattinson may probably make a killer Geralt, however Superman? He may by no means.) As enjoyable as that’s, in actuality the 2 have been each younger actors beginning out and Pattinson simply ended up being the best one for the function. In one other universe, nevertheless? We nearly noticed Henry Cavill as each Edward and Cedric.

In line with previous weblog posts from “Twilight” ebook writer Stephanie Meyer that have been unearthed by the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast (by way of GQ UK) in a chat with Cavill, the writer initially needed Cavill to painting the movie model of Edward Cullen, however he dropped out of the working as a possible sparklepire when he hit the ripe previous age of 24. 

In her July 2007 weblog posts, Meyer laments that Cavill had aged out as a result of she could not contemplate an Edward over the age of 21, saying “Probably the most disappointing factor for me is shedding my excellent Edward. Henry Cavill is now twenty-four years previous. Allow us to have a second of quiet wherein to mourn…” A couple of months later, Pattinson, who simply squeaked by the age threshold, was introduced as Edward. Meyer additionally favored the thought of Cavill taking part in Carlisle Cullen, the adopted father of the Cullen vampire clan, a task that ultimately went to “Nurse Jackie” star Peter Facinelli. Perhaps he can get an opportunity at taking part in a Cullen within the proposed (and maybe ill-advised) “Twilight” revival. Fortunately, it looks like there is no dangerous blood between Cavill and Pattinson, as Cavill defined:  

“I did not find out about them eager to forged me and the web wasn’t fairly the device that it’s now and so I solely came upon afterwards. I used to be like, ‘Oh okay, that will have been cool.'”

Cavill additionally auditioned for the function of Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter,” however Pattinson’s audition was apparently only a bit extra magical, as a result of the function went to him. As a result of he was seemingly set to play Superman in James Gunn’s DCEU, Cavill joked that possibly there was a Batman and Superman throwdown sooner or later to deal with the “rivalries,” however today, it is trying like that will not occur, both. 

Cavill’s tenure as Superman appears just about achieved, with David Corenswet donning the cape for the DC Universe’s foreseeable future, and he is out as Geralt as effectively, having been changed for the ultimate season with Thor’s proficient little brother, “Starvation Video games” star Liam Hemsworth. Nonetheless, he is nonetheless connected for “Enola Holmes 3,” reprising his function because the younger detective’s well-known father, and he is additionally engaged on a “Voltron” movie, a “Highlander” reboot, and a “Warhammer 40,000” adaptation for Amazon. Cavill followers can be consuming effectively, it appears, with numerous massive franchise tasks on the way in which. 

Pattinson has tended towards extra arthouse and impartial tasks for the reason that finish of his stint as Edward, attempting to go away the younger grownup franchise behind him, so the one massive franchise in his future is as Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Batman: Half II,” deliberate for a 2026 launch. Fortunately, he is additionally nonetheless giving wild and peculiar performances, too, just like the upcoming Bong Joon Ho movie “Mickey 17.” Whether or not you are focused on seeing Cavill reload his gun arms and look good-looking or watching Pattinson slither across the surroundings like a bizarre little gremlin, the longer term seems to be shiny.