Superman, James Gunn and Lex Luthor
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James Gunn's Superman, starring David Coresnwet as the Man of Steel feels to grounded to soar. Gunn's version of the caped superhero is too introspective and spends more time licking his wounds and beliefs rather than fighting the bad guys and simply being heroid.
Superman features a very brief voice cameo from a second Lex Luthor actor besides Nicholas Hoult, Smallville's Michael Rosenbaum.
Nicholas Hoult plays the perfect megalomaniac, Lex Luthor, in James Gunn’s “Superman.” As Superman’s arch-nemesis, the powerful owner of LutherCorp, he can’t stand that people look up to the Man of Steel and not him.
Lex Luthor? When it comes to the positive takes critics have shared about James Gunn’s Superman, a considerable amount of praise has been pushed towards the ensemble cast. Lead actor David Corenswet has been praised for his winning performance as the Man of Steel but,
Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom has a lot to live up to already Robert Downey Jr.'s casting as Doctor Doom in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday rocked the internet when it was announced, but I was instantly skeptical.
One of the little running press currents in the lead-up to next week’s release of James Gunn’s Superman has been the fact that both David Corwenswet (Superman) and Nicholas Hoult (Lex Luthor) auditioned for the title part,
Warning: some light spoilers for Superman may be in play. There’s a larger world at work with some of the 2025 movies we’re seeing in theaters. We’ve kind of become used to it as cinematic universes are still very much a thing,