Tuesday
Jun252013
Strong Lex For Second Steel
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 1:34PM 
JA from MNPP here with today's rumor going around that Man of Steel director Zack Snyder and the powers that be at Warner Brothers have narrowed the search for their sequel's Lex Luthor to one fella you probably recognize - Mr. Mark Strong. Although the source giving this info up says the sequel's going to shoot next year I still think it's way way early to be speculating on this... ahhhh but speculation's what the internet does. And I'd wager that Lex is, as a villain or at least as an important character that will be introduced, a given as far as the second film is concerned - he's arguably as important to the world of Clark Kent as Lois is..
Mark Strong is probably a great pick, too - he's older than Cavill, but as we saw in Man of Steel Lex is already an established force in the world to be reckoned with; his company's name is all over the place. So making him older make sense. The thing that gives me pause is...
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... Mark Strong has already played a DC character. He was Sinestro in Green Lantern. Granted he looked a little different. And he was probably the best thing going on in that movie. (Not counting Ryan Reynolds' muscles.) Of course Green Lantern was a bit of a disaster for the studio, and sweeping all of that under the rug is probably where DC are going slash have already long gone, so I should get over this.
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It just makes the field for these roles seem small though, doesn't it? I'm not knocking Mark Strong by any means, I like him, but there are lots of actors out there in the world with access to a razor blade and a nice shaped head who might be interesting and unexpected and haven't already played the bad guy in a DC movie, you know? Any suggestions, folks?
tagged DC, Green Lantern, Man of Steel, Superman
DC, Green Lantern, Man of Steel, Superman
Reader Comments (10)
Yawn at both Mark Strong and a Lex Luther villain in Man of Steel sequel. And why not go someone like... oh, Corey Stole? I dunno.
Mark is a great choice, but what is with these superhero movies and double-dipping with actors? Chris Evans as The Human Torch and Captain America, Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern and Deadpool come to mind. Evans (along with Michael Chiklis) was good casting to offset the awful choices of Jessica Alba and Julian McMahon and does a decent job as Captain America, but come on. Why are these people so lazy with their choices?
Plus, it'd be nice to avoid the same go-to villains over and over again. Lex is super-important of course, but why not have someone like Doomsday instead of putting the same characters on-screen again and again?
I don't know. I guess i'm just worn out with superhero movies these days. I still haven't seen Man of Steel or Iron Man 3.
Paul Bettany, Richard Armitage, Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Ed Harris, Campbell Scott, Billy Campbell, Viggo Mortensen
I say go with Denzel Washington in the role. Anyway, although I think Lex being the villain for MOS2 makes a lot of sense after the events of the first film, I sort of side with Glenn. I'd much rather see Brainiac, Zatanna or any other villain that we haven't seen before we tackle Lex yet again. Besides, isn't it pretty sad that out of six major Superman motion pictures the only villains we've seen from the comics are Zod and Lex?
I don't know if i want him as lex luther because he plays villains all the time. I do like him very much as an actor especially when he is playing more complex roles. i really liked him in zero dark thirty, but my favorite performance of his was in Young Victoria actually. Not that i think that the movie is great, but i do think he added something extra to that role. He stood out in my opinion.
My pick: Corey Stoll.
They should get The Rock to play Lex, though Denzel in a comic book adaptation would be a change of pace for him.
My picks: Alessandro Nivola & Troy Garity!
Mark Strong is an excellent choice! Hope he lands the role!
I'd say: Amanda Seyfried as a take on Leslie "Livewire" Willis. All I hope is that they go closer to the Superman: The Animated Series origin than the mainline comic book origin. The best part of that origin: Smiles in the face of an engineered public suicide that is only revealed as an engineered public suicide by that expression.