We’re undecided should you all have heard, however the new Superman film from James Gunn is fairly good, which is in all probability a reduction for Warner Bros., as Superman is now the basis upon which DC Studios is constructing their new DCU. And James Gunn isn’t shy about saying that many of the characters in Superman are going to pop up in future DCU tasks – particularly Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor.
“I believe that Lex Luthor is vital to Superman,” James Gunn instructed Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I believe he is additionally vital to the future of the DC Universe.”
It in all probability isn’t shocking that Lex Luthor, who is simply the most iconic of Superman’s villains, will characteristic closely in future DCU motion pictures, however James Gunn did admit that he gained’t all the time be a merely mental adversary to the Man of Metal. When the host reminded Gunn that Lex Luthor has constructed himself a complete robot swimsuit to assist him go toe-to-toe with Superman, Gunn didn’t dismiss the thought of together with that energy swimsuit from the comics. “We nonetheless bought loads of time, man,” James Gunn mentioned with a smile. “We see the early prototypes of that swimsuit.”
Whereas there was by no means a model of the Superman script that had Lex Luthor being a bodily adversary to Superman, James Gunn appears to be implying that the subsequent time we see Nicholas Hoult’s Luthor is likely to be a very totally different story. Which is excellent news for these of us determined to see Lex Luthor’s mad scientist period play out on the massive display screen.