Jesse Eisenberg Cast to play Lex Luthor . . .

[Looney]

Why don't they want me to see this movie?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/jess...e-warner-bros/

[Crazedwraith]

Huh. I thought they'd already cast that breaking bad dude?

[Spimman]

[Wyrminarrd]

Horrible choice imo. He's not old enough to believably play someone who's built up a large industrial empire and he doesn't the right presence for Lex.

Maybe he will surprise me but at this moment I just can't see him standing up to Superman and not looking ridiculous.

I am however happy with them casting Jeremy Irons has Alfred. I just hope that the role won't just be a small cameo.

[mr_kennedy]

What happened to Bryan Cranston?

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I think those were only rumors.

[Looney]

I posted it and I still don't believe it. It has to be some horrible mistake. Cranston is the right person for the role. I went back and read the original story about Cranston being cast again and it talks about the deal possibly being for 6 films or as many as 10. They must not have been able to make it work or maybe some executive decided he was too old to appeal to pre-teen and teen money. It is crazy! Like I said, they keep making moves like they don't want me to see this movie and since Affleck was cast I don't plan on it. I came back on board with Cranston, but now I am out again. LOL

[Naonak]

I'm actually really interested to see what the take is going to be here.

I personally would have liked Lex to be about the same age as Superman. A young, ambitious Luther would make for a more interesting villain.

Horrible choice imo. He's not old enough to believably play someone who's built up a large industrial empire and he doesn't the right presence for Lex.

Hmm?

[Wyrminarrd]

Ok, I´ll admit I thought he was younger than he is, thought he was still around 25 which would have been to young

[Looney]

Okay I did read that Cranston himself said he hadn't heard anything, so the original story was just a rumor that many over zealous media outlets tried to capitalize on.

[maneth]

Ok, I´ll admit I thought he was younger than he is, thought he was still around 25 which would have been to young

He's about the same age as Henry Cavill, so they picked a guy of the proper age, at least if they want to continue considering Smallville as a part of the canon.

[Crazedwraith]

Umm... Smallville isn't canon with Man of Steel?

[knowles2]

Horrible choice imo. He's not old enough to believably play someone who's built up a large industrial empire and he doesn't the right presence for Lex.

Maybe he will surprise me but at this moment I just can't see him standing up to Superman and not looking ridiculous.

I am however happy with them casting Jeremy Irons has Alfred. I just hope that the role won't just be a small cameo.

He inherited most of it from his dad didn't he. An in to days world you got fairly young people running multi billion dollars companies like Google, Facebook,

[Bladed]

Cavill and Eisenberg are both 30 years old. I have(somewhere stored) a Superboy comic that has the original story of how Lex became Superboy/man's arch enemy. It's seems they were in High school together and the best of friends till a lab accident burned all of Lex's hair off. Lex of course blamed Superboy.

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

Umm... Smallville isn't canon with Man of Steel?

Thankfully!

On the casting... I don't know what to think.