BvS Jesse Eisenberg IS Lex Luthor - Part 9

[matt47]

Lawdy, just reading "Batman and Superman team up to takeout" makes me giddy. I can't wait for their team up scene. Hans Zimmer!! You better have something majestic for that moment!

 

[dnno1]

I had put forth an idea that Lex would use Kryptonian tech to threaten all life on Earth....Batman and Superman team up to takeout a kryptonite powered machine that blows up in Lex face. The kryptonite explosion does two things to him...greatly enhances his mind to super sci fi levels and makes him bald. The movie will be about how Batman and Superman form an uneasy truce...and also give us that Lex we all know from the comics.

That sounds too much like the Leader. Not a good plotline

 

[roach]

That sounds too much like the Leader. Not a good plotline.

Technically it's Lex's original storyline

 

[TDK elbowstrike]

So what are the biggest prevailing theories on how Lex loses his hair?

1. Kryptonite/radiation poisoning?
2. Superman directly/indirectly responsible Ala Birthright?
3. Lex keeps his hair?

Any others?

 

[TDK elbowstrike]

I think it's actually kind of cool that he starts off with hair, but eventually, the Spinal Tap haircut gotta go...

 

[roach]

So what are the biggest prevailing theories on how Lex loses his hair?

1. Kryptonite/radiation poisoning?
2. Superman directly/indirectly responsible Ala Birthright?
3. Lex keeps his hair?

Any others?

I don't think he'll keep the hair since our first pic of Lex was bald

 

[The Guard]

I hope they do.

Eradicator mirror confirmed.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I am not going to be surprised if Jesse as Lex is portrayed as being bald from the start but wears the hair peices for his public image.

 

[roach]

I am not going to be surprised if Jesse as Lex is portrayed as being bald from the start but wears the hair peices for his public image.

It's a possibility but that's pretty much what Hackman did. I can see them trying to make the character different than previous incarnations

 

[TDK elbowstrike]

Yeah, I'm leaning towards a Birthright type situation where Supes is directly or indirectly responsible for Lex becoming bald. Hasn't happened like that in live action before as far as I remember. Unless you count Smallville TV where Kal-els arrival with the meteor shower made Lex permanently bald.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Didn't Shea go bald on LOIS AND CLARK?

 

[DKDetective]

Didn't Shea go bald on LOIS AND CLARK?

Yeah, but that was from his associates resurrecting him if I recall correctly, not from anything Superman did.

 

[elgaz]

I have a feeling Luthor will shave his own head.

Pictures of him so far show a man with not just a full head of hair, but long hair. He's grown it purposefully to that length and it's probably as much part of his 'image' as his business ventures and corporate successes. Like many men who value their hair and grow it long like in days of old, he may also associate it with his virility and as a symbol of his masculinity. Intellectuals were also noted in days gone by for having long hair.

I'd hazard a guess that at some point in this film, Superman & Batman will overcome whatever Lex's devious plan is, and his true nature will be exposed to the world - not the saviour of Metropolis or whatever he's presented as, but the deceitful egomaniac he truly is. And I think in doing so, he will shed off whatever remnants of his old image are left - including his long hair.

It wouldn't be entirely different to how Walter White embraced his bald head in Breaking Bad - as part of his 'true' Heisenberg identity - even after his cancer had receded and he was able to regrow his hair.

 

[matt47]

Just watched an interview with Jesse. He talked about basketball, seems like he really loves it and it's one of his few hobbies. Could have he been the one to suggest the basketball court and such?

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

The original idea for Lex Luthor on Lois and Clark was not to have him shave his head, obviously in part because Shea would not agree to being bald... but their take on it was he's a billionaire genius... he'd figure out how to fix the problem without needing a wig Deborah Levine's rules that were in place went out the window when she left, and I think the show suffered in some ways. Season 1 of L&C is phenomenal imo.

 

[Superchan]

John Shea is still my favorite live action interpretation of luthor.

 

[Captain Tired]

And mine. Though I think Jesse could overtake him.

 

[superboy13]

John Shea is still my favorite live action interpretation of luthor.

Performance-wise, it's Rosenbaum for me. But Shea, as little as we saw of him, was written better.

 

[aNarcHy2day]

It's Rosenbaum for me too. I think he wins for this alone-

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, as hokey as Smallville was, Rosenbaum was great.

 

[dnno1]

Technically it's Lex's original storyline

Lex Lutor never used Kryptonian tech in his origins nor did he obtain super-genius from an accident. Luthor was always a brilliant man and they had to retcon his baldness via an accident or an illness because he was originally portrayed as a man with hair but later shown bald in future stories (with no explanation).

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

Shea and Rosenbaum are tied for me.

 

[Spooderman]

I was initially neutral, but after seeing Eisenberg's horrid preformance, I have to go with "kill it with fire, burn this trash along with the gangsta Joker"

 

[Uroboric Forms]

I was initially neutral, but after seeing Eisenberg's horrid preformance, I have to go with "kill it with fire, burn this trash along with the gangsta Joker"

What was the rest of the movie like?

 

[Spooderman]

What was the rest of the movie like?

If Lex Luthor didn't suck, they would have shown it in the trailer.