First Look at Lex Luthor from Batman v Superman

[Remus]

Upon making a google search, this is the 1 image I found that didn't just look like a mockup:

Here, it's at least a clean shave and no shadow of a scalp, unlike the recent Hitman trailer. So take it how you will. If the baldness is an issue with people, then their enjoyment of the movie will largely depend on how the production staff maintain this particular look throughout what I can only imagine will be a 3 1/2 hour movie. Mind you, the movie version of Lex is at a 1/1 ratio for bald/not bald. Gene Hackman? Not bald. Kevin Spacey? Bald.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm positive that I've seen that picture before...only in color. I'm really starting to wonder if Batman V Superman isn't going to go all-out Frank Miller on us and just be in black-and-white. As for Eisenburg himself, he looks much too young to be Lex Luthor. He looks more like a bald thug kind of character who Batman would punch in the jaw and then forget about. It just doesn't feel right to me but maybe it'll look better in motion.

 

[P-89 Scorpion]

"Not like any of the Lexes that you've seen..."

THEN WHY EVEN PUT HIM IN THE MOVIE?!

Seriously, what is even the point of using a character's name if you are just going to make your on character anyway?

You do know how many different Luthor's there have been right? and that's just in the comics.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Upon making a google search, this is the 1 image I found that didn't just look like a mockup:

Holy *** ! He actually looks like the head of a corporation on this.

I keep seeing this storyline. He's a young entrepreneur who just manages to be extremely successful. He sees Superman as a threat to humanity and decides to take him out? but gets a little too much into it.

Am I wrong to try and be the optimist in this?

 

[FPLOON]

So... It's Eisenberg pulling a Heisenberg?

Other than that, I want to hear him say a quote straight out of Lex Luther himself...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I rather fancy the look. He looks like a Lex Luthor to me. So it's not an image thing. It's just that I've never seen Eisenberg do anything other than play the neurotic Jew. I wonder about his acting ability, not the physique du role.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I rather fancy the look. He looks like a Lex Luthor to me. So it's not an image thing. It's just that I've never seen Eisenberg do anything other than play the neurotic Jew. I wonder about his acting ability, not the physique du role.

Which is an ironic choice of words considering here he looks like an extra from Romper Stomper or American History X.


I gotta at least respect that he was willing to go bald, since doing that is a big deal, but he just doesn't look intimidating and any kind of anger will look like a child's tantrum rather than adult rage. I mean he could shock the shit out of me, but I won't be holding my breath.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Hahaha

Hahahahahahaha

Oh man he looks adorable.

He doesn't look menacing or ruthless, he looks like a child who got into his dad's clippers and had a bit of an accident with his hair.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Our villain ladies and gentlemen!

 

[Bob_McMillan]

He looks like a drug dealer taking a mug shot.

I don't know anyone who is too excited for Dawn of Justice, but if I did I have a feeling they would be disappointed.

 

[Wendy Moss]

I rather fancy the look. He looks like a Lex Luthor to me. So it's not an image thing. It's just that I've never seen Eisenberg do anything other than play the neurotic Jew. I wonder about his acting ability, not the physique du role.

Actors of fully Jewish background: -Logan Lerman, Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mila Kunis, Bar Refaeli, James Wolk, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julian Morris, Adam Brody, Esti Ginzburg, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Erin Heatherton, Odeya Rush, Anton Yelchin, Paul Rudd, Scott Mechlowicz, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Margarita Levieva, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Skylar Astin, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Eric Balfour, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.

Andrew Garfield is Jewish, too (though I don?t know if both of his parents are).

Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers -Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D?Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, Ryan Potter.

Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jews and/or identify as Jews: -Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.

Oh, and Ansel Elgort?s father is Jewish, though I don?t know how Ansel was raised.

Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism -Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I rather fancy the look. He looks like a Lex Luthor to me. So it's not an image thing. It's just that I've never seen Eisenberg do anything other than play the neurotic Jew. I wonder about his acting ability, not the physique du role.

Actors of fully Jewish background: -Logan Lerman, Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mila Kunis, Bar Refaeli, James Wolk, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julian Morris, Adam Brody, Esti Ginzburg, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Erin Heatherton, Odeya Rush, Anton Yelchin, Paul Rudd, Scott Mechlowicz, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Margarita Levieva, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Skylar Astin, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Eric Balfour, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.

Andrew Garfield is Jewish, too (though I don?t know if both of his parents are).

Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers -Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D?Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, Ryan Potter.

Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jews and/or identify as Jews: -Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.

Oh, and Ansel Elgort?s father is Jewish, though I don?t know how Ansel was raised.

Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism -Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

Welcome to the forums and thank you for the list, but all I said was that Eisenberg plays a certain kind of role, not that every Jewish actor does.

 

[laggyteabag]

I get that they are still trying to do the whole dark and brooding thing with this film, but did they really need to release a black and white headshot of him instead of something more representative of how he will actually look in this film? Because it just looks weird looking at it in black and white.

 

[octafish]

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Mind you, the movie version of Lex is at a 1/1 ratio for bald/not bald. Gene Hackman? Not bald. Kevin Spacey? Bald.

You need to watch your proper Superman movies again. Hackman's Luthor (the best of course) wears a variety of pretty poor and obvious wigs with his hair changing styles, texture and colour, plus when he and Otis are in the pokey at the end, Luthor is sans wig.

My robe Otis...

 

[ryukage_sama]

Looks bland. I doubt anybody will ever surpass Clancy Brown's animated Luthor in my mind, but this shot is underwhelming and completely devoid of personality. Intensity =/= personality.

 

[CaitSeith]

And there goes MovieBob's idea of casting The Rock as Lex Luthor...

 

[JimB]

Am I wrong to try and be the optimist in this?

You are never wrong to try to maintain optimism. Yahtzee's graph about optimism's correlation to suicide notwithstanding, there's never anything wrong with avoiding reflexive and contrived cynicism.

That said, my expectations for this movie remain in the gutter. I like to think that's not reflexive but rather an accurate analysis of the information available and the patterns established by the careers of the creative teams, but even if I'm right about how it will end, you are not wrong to be optimistic, and I just wanted to take this time to thank and congratulate you for it. Carry on being you, Random Argument Man.