The Official Lex Luthor Casting Thread - Part 6

[HankTheTurtle]

I've really got my heart set on Michael C Hall.

 

[Mad Love]

Daniel Day-Lewis would be highly improbable, but I would want an actor that can do what he did in There Will Be Blood. Someone who can come off as a charming salesman in one moment and be psychotic in another. That character was very Lex to me.

 

[DIRECTOR]

i think it's meant to be

 

[SuperMike335!!]

Well Lex would no longer need to resort to his usual green armour thats for sure!

Yeah well, it would be the first time Lex has been built better than Superman!

I do think that the Rock is FAR better choice for...

Mister Mxyzptlk

 

[X Knight]

how bout the Rock as Steel??

 

[terry78]

Michael C. Hall I'm trying to save for maybe Riddler to be honest. He's just been wasted in movie roles, like that godawful Gamer.

 

[Eddie Dean]

He was amazing in Gamer.

 

[The Shield]

and I still want Guy Pearce as "Alexander Joseph Luthor", starts off like that, with a full head of red hair, then something happens and he shows he's truly evil, has an accident, loses his hair....and then goes by "Lex"

 

[ThePhantasm]

I like the idea of Guy Pearce. He's a tremendous actor.

 

[Hamill-Joker]

Out-of-the-box suggestion.

Woody Harrelson.

 

[terry78]

Haymitch?

Is that how you spell it?

 

[moviefreak]

This is the man I wished to be Lex Luthor,

Spoiler

unfortunately he left the Earth a while ago...

 

[Enriquespy]

No, no. You somehow took a picture of the actual Lex Luthor. how did you do that?

 

[Rust]

Imagine a Superman-cast assembled from that time.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Imagine a Superman-cast assembled from that time.

Rock Hudson is Superman
Lauren Bacall is Lois Lane
Yul Brynner is Lex Luthor
Edward G. Robinson is Perry White
Tommy Kirk is Jimmy Olsen
Charlton Heston is Jor-El
Gary Cooper is Pa Kent
James Mason is General Zod
Peter Lorre is Mister Mxyzptlk
and Orson Welles as Darkseid

in Richard Fleischer's Superman!

 

[Gianakin_]

Nice. Welles wouldn't even need makeup or SFX touchups.

 

[Rust]

Rock Hudson is Superman
Lauren Bacall is Lois Lane
Yul Brynner is Lex Luthor
Edward G. Robinson is Perry White
Tommy Kirk is Jimmy Olsen
Charlton Heston is Jor-El
Gary Cooper is Pa Kent
James Mason is General Zod
Peter Lorre is Mister Mxyzptlk
and Orson Welles as Darkseid

in Richard Fleischer's Superman!

Pretty sweet. Hudson's pretty Superman'ish, huh? I thought Clint Walker would be the ultimate Superman of that time, but maybe he was too young.

Seriously, that would've been a class-A ensemble and project. Dunno about Mason as Zod, but still.

 

[Project862006]

still hoping for viggo

 

[Rowsdower!]

Viggo would be great but I don't think he'd want to do it. Didn't he pass on the Zod role? Of course, maybe once he sees how good Man of Steel is (which it WILL be dammit!) he'll want to join the franchise.

But I'm still hoping for Pearce. His (highly underrated) performance in Lawless sold it for me. How he got completely ignored for that while Alan Arkin got a friggin' Oscar nom for playing the SAME character he's played in about his last 10 movies makes me want to put my fist through a wall.

 

[Asr]

Rock Hudson is Superman
Lauren Bacall is Lois Lane
Yul Brynner is Lex Luthor
Edward G. Robinson is Perry White
Tommy Kirk is Jimmy Olsen
Charlton Heston is Jor-El
Gary Cooper is Pa Kent
James Mason is General Zod
Peter Lorre is Mister Mxyzptlk
and Orson Welles as Darkseid

in Richard Fleischer's Superman!

I would've gone with Gregory Peck as Supes personally. And you forgot to cast Ma Kent.

 

[Project862006]

i hope lex speaks this line in a sequelt:

All Men Are Created Equal,All Men.But You Are Not A Man.

 

[Mad Love]

Now I want to know what Azzarello thinks of MOS

 

[Lex Luthor]

A few days ago, I was skimming thru the thread, looked at this image, and decided to do a photomerge just for the fun of it. *sigh*

 

[Project862006]

i know people like him more for braniac but watching recent trek sb tv spot i really love Benedict Cumberbatch for lex he has that very cold callous intimidating look to him and he has a great chilling booming voice

 

[N7 Joseph Shepard]

i know people like him more for braniac but watching recent trek sb tv spot i really love Benedict Cumberbatch for lex he has that very cold callous intimidating look to him and he has a great chilling booming voice

lol I saw the same thing and for the first time thought of him as Brainiac

I still want Guy Pearce as Lex, but Cumberbatch would probably do the role justice, honestly the first STITD trailer with his voice over I thought he'd be great as Zod, just the way he delivered the lines......damn