Titans Titans General Discussion Thread - Part 1

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Titans Season 4 Casts Netflix's You Star In A Mystery Role

 

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'Titans' showrunner previews Titus Welliver's arrival as Lex Luthor

 

[Sawyer]

Not sure about the beard, but

 

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Casting Titus Welliver in Titans was not a hard sell. Though best-known for playing the hard-nosed titular detective on Bosch, Welliver is actually a big comics fan — as Titans showrunner Greg Walker discovered when he called the actor to pitch him on playing Lex Luthor.

"You usually have to do this whole dog-and-pony show to get an actor to do the show," Walker tells EW over Zoom. "But when I called to kind of lure him in, I could barely get a word in. We were talking on the phone and he was just walking through his library, telling me about all his Wolfman/Perez Titanseditions. He's a giant, giant fan. He'd watched every episode of the show, and could tell me about certain stories, certain shots. It was the most unexpected call I've ever had."

Welliver's Luthor, who you can see in a first-look photo above, poses an interesting challenge for the Titans. Despite being one of the most infamous supervillains in the DC canon, he's still just human. His threat is intellectual and psychological.

"He has a very sensitive, thoughtful approach to evil and power. You know what he's done, what he's capable of doing, except like many of those people, he's personable. He doesn't have a cat on his lap. Yeah. He's curious, which I think is very interesting about his character. He wants to know about people and what makes them tick, and how they're different from him. He sees the world through the lens both of his own power and his own inadequacy, and tries to compensate for both."

Luthor is particularly threatening for Superboy. Conner (Joshua Orpin) was created from a combination of Superman's DNA with Luthor's. This season, Conner will finally have to reckon with what that means.

"We're really going deeper in all these characters and shaking them up," Walker says. "What shakes Conner up is an identity story. He's explored his Superman self, but he has not really explored his Lex self. What does that mean when you do? What happens when you give that self the keys to the car? Does it start driving the wrong way at rush hour 100 miles an hour?"

 

[Primal Slayer]

He got buff and beefy! Hellloo..

Still dont understand why they changed Korys hair from red to black.

 

[NotNickFury]

A bit thicker than Jon Cryer's beard on Supergirl, but I dig it. This Lex looks more physically imposing than a lot of other live-action incarnations, I feel. At least, based on this one photo, anyway.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I love that we are getting Lex everywhere but Superman & Lois lol

 

[flickchick85]

Half the reason I want this show gone is that I believe it would free up certain characters to show up on S&L, so we can add Lex Luthor to that list.

 

[Pennywise]

Half the reason I want this show gone is that I believe it would free up certain characters to show up on S&L, so we can add Lex Luthor to that list.

Wait until Brainiac shows up in S5!

 

[herolee10]

I love that we are getting Lex everywhere but Superman & Lois lol

 

[NotNickFury]

I want to imagine that if Supergirl hadn't used Lex Luthor, he might have shown up in Superman and Lois. I have nothing to base that off of, especially since both shows had their own take on Morgan Edge, but who knows?

 

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[Sawyer]

Full body shot of the costume looks a little awkward as these photos often do, but I quite like this shot…



Better without the hood up IMO.

 

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[Sawyer]

Jesus, finally.

 

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[Scarecrow_King]

wow that fight looked terrible.

 

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[Lencho01]

YouTube version…

 

[DarthSkywalker]

So is Donna not on the show anymore? Do I have no reason to catch up?