Leonardo DiCaprio Had “a Lot of Great Ideas” for Lex Luthor in ‘Batman v Superman’

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s Lex Luthor might have looked extremely various.

Director Zack Snyder dropped in the Pleased Sad Confused podcast to promote the upcoming 2nd part of his Rebel Moon movies for Netflix. Throughout the discussion, host Josh Horowitz asked him if there was any reality to the reality that the studio desired Tom Hanks or Adam Driver for the bad guy function.

“I believe I did speak to Adam on the phone, yeah,” he stated of the reported castings.”Leonardo DiCaprioI talked with him about it.”

While Snyder eventually opted for Jesse Eisenberg as Lexstarring opposite Henry Cavill’s Superman and Ben Affleck’s Batman, he exposed the Titanic star “had a great deal of excellent concepts, in fact, simply in the conference.”

“I believe, in the end, he resembled, ‘Eh, I do not understand.’ He was actually clever about the product and actually clever about the character,” the director shared. “In a great deal of methods, I believe he was the one that pointed out to me this concept about Superman combating the Justice League at some time.”

Snyder checked out DiCaprio’s concept that Superman might battle his allies in both his 2017 movie Justice Leaguein addition to 2021’s Zack Snyder’s Justice Leaguewhich was the filmmaker’s extended variation that was available in at 4 hours and 2 minutes.

Batman v Superman wasn’t the very first time the Killers of the Flower Moon star remained in the discussion to play somebody in a superhero movie. David S. Goyer, who co-wrote Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, formerly informed Horowitz that DiCaprio was likewise in speak to play a part in those movies.

The film writer remembered in 2023, “I keep in mind after The Dark Knightthe head of Warner Bros. at the best stated, ‘You got to do the Riddler. Leo as the Riddler,’ stating to me, ‘You got to inform Chris, Leo is the Riddler.'”