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

[Iceman]

The thing that worries me about Hoult is that I can't really imagine a scenario where he'd be the definitivie Luthor either. I can imagine him as a take on Luthor, but not as the man from the comics. Maybe he has something up his sleeve, but idk.

Ledger was like that too, not lifted from the comics but a definitive film version. Also a young talented actor who needed that kind of massive and complex (for a CBM) role to show to the wider audience what he can do.

 

[Alien Anal]

I’m guessing he’s a fan of this stuff. If he was going for Batman too that could also have been another longer term franchise commitment. Getting paid well over multiple films and getting additional fame and a following from these high profile projects (that could help subsidise doing future artistic projects) might have all played into the decision. I doubt he would have gone for so many high profile comic character roles if he didn't have an underlying interest.

Hoult ha never come across as someone that seems to good for fun films, he has played many fun characters.

I look at Collin Farrell and what people expected him to look like before we got set pics, now I'm not saying they will or should do the exact same thing for Lex but The Penguin has shown that our expectations can be very wrong.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, and Hoult doesn’t seem like the type who has a problem changing up his look for a role. Look at him in The Favourite, Renfield and Fury Road. He looks like a completely different guy in each one.

 

[Invader Joker]

My problem with Hoult is not his look. His look is fine. My problem is that there's nothing in his filmography that'd lead me to think he can play "imposing", which is what I typically think of Lex as.

 

[TMP98]

My problem with Hoult is not his look. His look is fine. My problem is that there's nothing in his filmography that'd lead me to think he can play "imposing", which is what I typically think of Lex as.

He was very impish in the Great and The Favourite. I heard he's pretty intimidating in True History of the Kelly Gang

 

[GreenKToo]

He wouldn't be my first choice for Lex.
He wouldn't even be my last choice, but then, neither was ledger.

 

[Alien Anal]

Yeahp, im team old lex anyway but I also liked Hoult for Supes but I'm leaning more Spencer House these days not that I have seen him in anything.

 

[Web-Head]

Pretty basic but I always liked the idea of Corey Stoll as Lex.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

I hate the idea of Stoll for Lex. If he had been Lex before antman? Absolutely, he'd have been a great Snyderverse Lex. But he's kinda played that part already. I'd take Billy Zane as lex before him.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I feel like if Corey Stoll ever had a chance, Quantumania effectively killed it, lol.

 

[Superchan]

I think you can genuinely make the argument that we actually haven't seen a proper Lex Luthor in live action in a movie before. I mean how comics-accurate have they been?

Actually Hackman's Lex was a dead-on golden age Lex, right down to his meglomaniacal self reference in the 3rd person "Lex Luthor! the greatest criminal mind of our age" and his obsession with toppling Superman's phyiscal power with his "genius" schemes. It's Lex from Action 23 to a T! With that being said though, I do agree with the sentiment that we haven't had a proper post-crisis Lex on the big screen yet, while on TV Lois and clark and smallville nailed it on the first try.

 

[Eddie Dean]

The Lex Luthor that people know now literally didn’t exist when Hackman played the character

 

[Scarlet Spider]

I feel like if Corey Stoll ever had a chance, Quantumania effectively killed it, lol.

What makes you say that?

Spoiler

 

[Lily Adler]

The Lex Luthor that people know now literally didn’t exist when Hackman played the character

 

[Babillygunn]

I’m down with Hoult. I would detest Stoll or Zane in the role. Honestly, I know that it is crazy, but I wouldn’t mind Rosenbaum being Lex again. He has worked with Gunn on the Guardians films.

 

[Sawyer]

I’m down with Hoult. I would detest Stoll or Zane in the role. Honestly, I know that it is crazy, but I wouldn’t mind Rosenbaum being Lex again. He has worked with Gunn on the Guardians films.

I’m pretty sure that the mere suggestion that he shave his head again, potentially for multiple years on end, would give him ‘Nam flashbacks.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Rosie won't be Lex, that's silly, but a cameo wouldn't surprise me. He and Gunn are pretty tight in real life.

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Rosenbaums like 50 years old now. Maybe he could play pa kent lol

 

[Babillygunn]

Rosenbaums like 50 years old now. Maybe he could play pa kent lol

Watch it youngster. I’ll be 50 in 2 years. Pa Kent my foot. Now get off my lawn.

 

[old city outlaw]

Rosenbaums like 50 years old now. Maybe he could play pa kent lol

Really??? I feel like 40 to 60 is the age Luthor should be.

 

[Alien Anal]

Really??? I feel like 40 to 60 is the age Luthor should be.

Welcome my fellow Old Lex enthusiast! It seems to be just you and me on this trip.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I have a soft spot for old, fat, robotic hand Luthor. I always thought that was a cool take on the character. I think I prefer him to be I good physical shape and not dying of radiation poisoning, but that version was good too.

If they had ever been able to make a Superman movie in the mid nineties, Daniel Benzali would have been perfect for that Luthor.

 

[Alien Anal]

I have a soft spot for old, fat, robotic hand Luthor. I always thought that was a cool take on the character. I think I prefer him to be I good physical shape and not dying of radiation poisoning, but that version was good too.

If they had ever been able to make a Superman movie in the mid nineties, Daniel Benzali would have been perfect for that Luthor.

I ain't seen robotic hand lex before, what's the story?

I never really understood what the interest is in having them of similar age. I certainly cant stand them knowing each other from childhood, it makes the universe so small. 40-50-60 is not even that old, just look at what people like Tom Cruise can do at his age and Lex is someone that would have had the best medical teams around him.

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Watch it youngster. I’ll be 50 in 2 years. Pa Kent my foot. Now get off my lawn.

And I'll be 40 in 2 years. I aint no youngster lol. I have brothers older than you young man.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I ain't seen robotic hand lex before, what's the story?

I do love me an old oex

Radiation poisoning from the Kryptonite ring resulted in him having to have his hand amputated and replaced with the robot hand. He later fakes his own death in a plane crash and had his brain put into a clone body, which he passes off as his son, Lex Luthor II.