I’ve joked before how I think this Bradley Cooper guy is a super-villain in disguise but there may be some merit to my previous jests. There’s an unconfirmed wild rumor out there that Cooper may have time to stop on set of the Man of Steel flick to make a cameo/appearance as Lex Luthor in the next Zack Snyder movie!
Source: Dark Horizons
Cosmic Book News is reporting the wild and totally unconfirmed right now rumor that Cooper is in talks to make a cameo appearance as none other than Lex Luthor in the upcoming Superman reboot “Man of Steel”.
Michael Shannon’s General Zod is the film’s lead villain, but early drafts of the script had Luthor as the antagonist. That’s obviously no longer the case, but a cameo by Luthor as a setup for future films (or to serve as a series long antagonist) makes sense.
I don’t know why someone hasn’t thought of this earlier! Sure I’d like to see Hollywood read more Superman comics and realize the he has more villains than Lex Luthor and General Zod but that’s not the point right now. I outright loved Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor in the Bryan Singer superman film. He was charismatic, funny, charming, witty, bald but the idea of Bradley Cooper providing us with an interpretation that isn’t just him channeling his inner ‘Gene Hackman’ is to titillating to ignore and would be a fun setup for future films in what’s undoubtedly planned to be some sort of franchise. It’s a rumor for now, but a fun one nonetheless.
I think that another villain other than Lex would be good. Who’s to say that they won’t have them. I would like to see parasite, metallo or bizzaro myself.
George Clooney would be a better choice to play Lex Luthor in my opinion. He can be charming and calculating type of political criminal who becomes president and abuses his power. I’m not so sure of him being bald given that the new Superman movie is set in the real world so to speak. The movie has a black Perry White, a red head Lois Lane, so why not a Lex Luthor who isn’t bald? I think that would be refreshing.
Braniac…? Doomsday? Darkseid? Can we get some of these intergalactic villians in a live action superman movie please… Surely the technology is there…
and i think fans would much rather see these 3 villians than lex luther already… Unless Lex is in the robotic suit…
Oh man, seeing Darkseid and Apokolips in a live action movie…..there are no words to tell how awesome and freaking brutal that would be.
Lex is a great and makavelian character not a god damned clown.
People who only saw Superman movies and have never seen any of the animated shows or read comics don’t know what the man is really about or what he is capable of.
It’s pretty much like all the people bitching about Robin when the only thing they saw is the awful tv show and the even more awful Schumacher movie.
I know what Lex Luther is all about. All i’m saying is we have the technology now to make those amazing characters come to life. Why not use it. I’m just tired of hollywood trying to make villians for superhero movies, humans or human-esk, just so they can cast another big name actor for the role, thinking that actors name would draw in audience.
I know Lex can be awesome if done right, but at this point, i’d much rather see a fully realized CG Darkseid trying to take over Earth and Superman having to stop him…
If he is indeed Lex, I hope he steers clear of Hackman’s campy Lex and goes a little more sinister and serious. I want the business savvy, politically charged Lex who doesnt even have to be a villain right away, and give him an arc of sorts…
Lex isn’t always bald.
You’re right! I just like him bald. In the 80’s his hairline was receding as shown in the Man of Steel miniseries that rebooted superman’s origin. The red head Lex was a clone body for him to transport his brain into a younger and healthier form but he eventually lost his long locks and manly beard in that one as well.
I’m pretty confident that the bald head is what most of mainstream will identify with.