George Clooney considered playing Marvel's Nick Fury until he saw this unbelievably gory scene

Warning: Unbelievably gory scene below. Before Marvel signed Samuel L. Jackson to play Nick Fury, it was in talks with George Clooney for the same role. Clooney would have been a natural fit for the rakish veteran-turned-spy. The actor reportedly pulled out, however, after reading the unusually and ludicrously violent "Fury" comic series by Garth Ennis, which was published from 2001 to 2002. He was particularly upset, according to Sean Howe's "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story," about the part w...