First Look: Lex Luthor
Entertainment Weekly had it first, and it quickly spread throughout the internet and social media: the first official image of Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in the upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“He’s not any of the Lexes that you’ve seen, that’s for sure,” says Snyder, “other than him being a captain of industry and one person to the world and another person to himself. And bald, of course.”
Details on the plot of the movie have been very thin, and rumors continue to fly all over the internet — Lex is a blogger, Lex has Zod’s body, Lex develops Doomsday from Zod’s body, etc. — but so far it’s all rumor and conjecture at this point.
“Our Lex is disarming and he’s not fake,” says Snyder. “He says what he believes and he says what’s on his mind. If you can unravel the string and decipher what he means, it’s all there.”
Eisenberg follows Lyle Talbot, Gene Hackman, John Shea, Sherman Howard, Kevin Spacey, and Michael Rosenbaum in the live action role.
