The men who were nearly Negan: see who almost played TWD's brutal villain 

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that it\'s now almost impossible to imagine anyone else playing the part.

JDM wasn\'t the only actor considered to play the brutal batsman, with some other

interesting names being thrown into the hat. Here\'s who we could have been watching...

"I think Jon Hamm would be perfect," series creator Robert Kirkman told

, with the actor himself later confirming that he\'d met with the writer a few times.

"It\'d be fun," Hamm said of potentially playing Negan... But, for whatever reason, it never came to pass.

An interesting one this, because Charlie Adlard, the artist on

comic series, reportedly based Negan\'s appearance on actor and Black Flag singer Rollins.

"Charlie Adlard based that guy on me and so I was a shoo-in for an audition," Rollins later told

"I went for the audition, and there were five pages of really cool dialogue with all these curses and it was beautiful, but I didn\'t get it."

So despite looking the spit of the comic book Negan, Rollins didn\'t get to beat the "Holy f**k f**king f**kity f**k" out of anyone.

, Olyphant nearly made the trip from Harlan County to Atlanta to play Negan.

He tested for the part, but Morgan won out. For an idea of how things might have been, check Tim out in HBO\'s

\'80s icon Dillon made a comeback in 2015 as the lead in Fox\'s bizarro TV thriller

But when it came time for the producers to do their own version of Eeny, meeny, miny, moe? He was not it.

Dillahunt – who we\'ve seen playing stone-cold bastards in films as diverse as

superfan and actively campaigned for the part of Negan on social media.

"It\'s true... I want Negan," he tweeted on November 6, 2015. "They are looking at some great actors and will make the best choice for the show." He got his own audition, too.

Just four days later AMC broke his heart by announcing Jeffrey Dean Morgan\'s casting.

Tough times – but things could be worse... Just ask this guy.

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