EXCLUSIVE: We hear that James Gunn has discovered his Lex Luthor in British actor Nicholas Hoult, a number of sources inform us.
A film star was at all times eyed for this function after Gunn chosen contemporary face David Corenswet within the title function, and Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane.
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The studio wished to undergo the casting course of after the SAG-AFTRA strike of touchdown an actor to play Luther. Warners is already in enterprise with Hoult on Clint Eastwood’s Juror No. 2. Hoult additionally starred within the 2015 Warner Bros. blockbuster, Mad Max Fury Street which remodeled $380M on the world field workplace.
Deadline reported final week that Venezuelan actress María Gabriela de Faría landed the function of villain The Engineer.
Hoult follows within the line of such actors as Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey and Jesse Eisenberg who’ve portrayed Luthor on-screen within the Warner Bros. Superman franchise.
Gunn chosen Corenswet and Brosnahan after months of audition tapes and in-person display assessments as his major leads earlier than the actors strike, however continued to be in prep on the film.
Gunn (the Guardian of the Galaxy movies, The Suicide Squad, the unique Max sequence Peacemaker) is directing from his screenplay based mostly on the DC characters. Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The movie is being produced by co-DC Boss Peter Safran (Aquaman, the upcoming Aquaman 2, The Conjuring franchise).
Superman: Legacy has been set for a worldwide launch on July 11, 2025.
The undertaking was introduced earlier this 12 months when Gunn and Safran laid out their plan for the first phase of this revamped slate and Superman: Legacy was entrance and middle because the undertaking that may assist launch this technique.
Hoult is repped by UTA, 42, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern.
Warner Bros had no remark.
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