Renfield and The Nice star Nicholas Hoult has reportedly been tapped to star as Lex Luthor in James Gunn‘s Superman: Legacy.
In accordance with a report from Deadline Hollywood, Hoult – who has additionally starred in movies like The Menu and Mad Max: Fury Street – has been confirmed to play the supervillain in Gunn’s upcoming superhero movie.
Deadline reviews that Hoult had been in talks with DC previous to the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike. Hoult is now the newest actor to be hooked up to the upcoming Superman movie. Most just lately, Venezuelan actress María Gabriela de Faría landed the position of villain The Engineer.
Hoult will now be the fourth actor to play the position of Lex Luthor on the large display screen following Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey and Jesse Eisenberg.
In June this 12 months, it was revealed that David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan have been forged within the movie as Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane respectively in Gunn’s film.
Superman: Legacy will probably be written and directed by Gunn, who beforehand described the movie as being concerning the character’s heritage. On Twitter, he wrote: “Lower than a 12 months in the past I noticed a means in, in some ways centering round Superman’s heritage – how each his aristocratic Kryptonian mother and father and his Kansas farmer mother and father inform who he’s and the alternatives he makes.”
Superman: Legacy will notably deal with a youthful model of the superhero, with Gunn confirming in December that longtime Superman actor Henry Cavill is not going to be concerned in his imaginative and prescient of the DC Universe. Gunn stated on the time: “Within the preliminary phases, our story will probably be specializing in an earlier a part of Superman’s life, so the character is not going to be performed by Henry Cavill.”
Superman: Legacy is scheduled to be launched on July 11, 2025.
