The Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time: Nicholas Hoult IS Lex Luthor

[Boom]

I mean, that was Eisenberg's Lex.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Was it?

 

[GreenKToo]

Every Lex we've got on the big screen has been goofy.

None felt like a real threat to the world.
And When they did feel like a threat, they spoiled it with chessy one liners.

Sadly, a TV show actually has my favorite live action Lex, SV.

 

[BobJM]

It’s a lazy comparison, but just make him like Darren Cross from Ant-Man, publicly-respected businessman public who will kill anyone who stands in his path towards power.

Fits for Luthor; instead of shrinking tech, it’s any number of alien tech that spawns Intergang and/or other villains.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I mean, that was Eisenberg's Lex.

On a superficial level maybe.

But he felt like Max Landis with red hair, which is why no one could take him seriously in the role.

 

[LifesEnd]

Hoping they dont go Silicon Valley *****ebag; spin on zuckerburg or Elon musk here.
Have him be a serious intimidating character. Basically just copy the DCAU take. But maybe a younger actor.

Id say I kind of like lois being a few years older than Clark(not to many but still older), and Lex somewhat the same age( probably makes sense to flip that but eh).

 

[Boom]

Was it?

CEO of LexCorp? Check.
Mad scientist? Check. (Dude straight-up made Frankenstein's Monster out of General Zod.)

So yeah, mad scientist CEO Luthor's been done. Whether it was done well is an entirely different matter.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Maybe do it better next time?

 

[GreenKToo]

I see the Lex I want being an inventor and a biologists. He cures cancer, and creates inventions that supply free energy, etc etc.
All because he can, more out of boredom instead of the goodness of his heart.

 

[Andrew92]

I see the Lex I want being an inventor and a biologists. He cures cancer, and creates inventions that supply free energy, etc etc.
All because he can, more out of boredom instead of the goodness of his heart.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Lex doesn't care enough to find a cure for cancer unless he can profit off of it with a serum you would have to take on a regular basis.

 

[GreenKToo]

Oh he would, and he would just because he could.
He would then lock it away and use it for a rainy day. A day it would benefit him, ie, running for president

 

[Dark Raven]

Every Lex we've got on the big screen has been goofy.

None felt like a real threat to the world.
And When they did feel like a threat, they spoiled it with chessy one liners.

Sadly, a TV show actually has my favorite live action Lex, SV.

The movie going audience probably think Lex is meant to be that way now, just as they think the only 2 villains Superman has are Lex and Zod.

 

[Dark Raven]

I mean, that was Eisenberg's Lex.

Eisenberg could play Arcade in an X-Men related film.

 

[TMP98]

Bradley cooper makes a lot of sense for this imo

 

[GreenKToo]

He is one of a few I think could fit.

Cooper
McConaughey
Pitt
Isaacs
Elba
Fassbender

 

[TMP98]

He is one of s few I think could fit.

Cooper
McConaughey
Pitt
Isaacs
Elba
Fassbender

Fassbender in steve jobs mode would be perfect but it would also be so similar to that performance so idk. McConaughey’s a great call though, especially since Gunn wanted him for Ego before. He could pull off the dangerous allure of Lex’s charisma to a T.

 

[DCDAVE]

I know he would never do it but I could see the “Rock” Dwayne Johnson playing a live action Clancy Brown Lex Luther. To bad he was hell bent on playing Black Adam.

 

[Alien Anal]

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I know he would never do it but I could see the “Rock” Dwayne Johnson playing a live action Clancy Brown Lex Luther. To bad he was hell bent on playing Black Adam.

He can't help but make movies about him. I think we can do without The Rock being in anymore DC films.

 

[DCDAVE]

He

He can't help but make movies about him. I think we can do without The Rock being in anymore DC films.

I really hope Gunn casts no names and up/comers as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. I really want to see the Trinity on the screen. Not some A lister in cosplay. Although Pattinson’s Batman was remarkable.

 

[Andrew92]

I know he would never do it but I could see the “Rock” Dwayne Johnson playing a live action Clancy Brown Lex Luther. To bad he was hell bent on playing Black Adam.

The Rock is a Schwarzenegger wannabe, he'll be irrelevant soon.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

I know he would never do it but I could see the “Rock” Dwayne Johnson playing a live action Clancy Brown Lex Luther. To bad he was hell bent on playing Black Adam.

That's who I advocated for. For years. Alas.

Perhaps it's a good thing his ego and horrible management team got in the way? As I said in my op-ed you would think after quite a few stillborn franchise starters they would restrategize. But again alas. His implosion will only get bigger.

As for my Luthor of choice... Jeremy Allen White from The Bear or - not remotely kidding - Shia.

 

[GreenKToo]

Unfortunately, most would see the rock as Lex, the Rock and not Lex.

 

[GreenKToo]

I had a whole list but I'm narrowing it down to two now as favorites.
Matthew McConaughey or Edris Elba.

 

[Andrew92]

I had a whole list but I'm narrowing it down to two now as favorites.
Matthew McConaughey or Edris Elba.

I think Elba would ham it up, like he did in Hobbs&Shaw and Suicide Squad. I think McConaughey would be perfect, but I don't know if he 'd actually make it.