{"id":219909,"date":"2025-10-17T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219909\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:40:09","slug":"nicholas-hoult-talks-subverting-lex-luthor-expectations-in-man-of-tomorrow-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219909\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Hoult Talks Subverting Lex Luthor Expectations in MAN OF TOMORROW \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Hoult<\/a> is ready to dive even deeper into Lex Luthor\u2019s mind, teasing that Man of Tomorrow<\/a> will challenge how fans see Superman\u2019s greatest enemy. <\/p>\n

The actor first appeared as the iconic villain in James Gunn<\/a>\u2019s Superman, which introduced audiences to the DCU\u2019s cold and calculating Lex Luthor, who already scheming from behind bars.<\/p>\n

While that film ended with Luthor locked up in Belle Reve, fans later saw him strike a new deal in Peacemaker Season 2. Working with A.R.G.U.S. Director Rick Flag Sr., Lex agreed to help contain superpowered threats inside \u201cSalvation,\u201d a mysterious alternate dimension. As a result, he\u2019s now being held in a prison free of metahumans, setting up his next big move.<\/p>\n

When speaking to GQ<\/a>, Hoult discussed Gunn\u2019s upcoming Man of Tomorrow, a movie the filmmaker has described as belonging \u201cjust as much to Lex as it does to Superman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t read it yet, but hopefully will soon, so I can\u2019t say anything more than that. But just upon playing the character for the first time in that story, through my research and prep, I feel like there\u2019s a lot more for me to explore and for us to explore. So I\u2019m excited that we are getting the chance to go back and do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoult also opened up about what draws him to playing such a ruthless, obsessive genius.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do really enjoy it. I suppose there\u2019s a freedom in playing a villain because there\u2019s nothing you can do that could be wrong. It\u2019s really interesting to try and get into the mindset and psyche of those people and their obsessive nature and their belief system or ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it sounds like he\u2019s just as thrilled to reunite with Gunn for the sequel:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, I loved working with James Gunn. I think he\u2019s a wonderful director and creative person and mind. I just spoke to him a week or two ago about the sequel and his idea for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m really excited to play that character again because I feel like there\u2019s a lot to explore with him and expectations to subvert. It\u2019s going to be exciting to step back into those shoes again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunn himself has hinted that Man of Tomorrow will be just as much about Lex\u2019s journey as it is about Superman\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan of Tomorrow will not be the same as Superman,\u201d Gunn said last month. \u201cAnd it is Lex’s story too, so it’s the two of them. That colors it in a totally different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early teaser art for the film shows Superman and Lex both fighting alongside each other, with Luthor suited up in his iconic green and purple War Suit straight out of the comics. The big question now is: what could possibly force these two enemies to team up?<\/p>\n

Many fans believe Brainiac will make his DCU debut, a villain Gunn has teased before. If that\u2019s the case, A.R.G.U.S. could release Lex to help face the extraterrestrial threat\u2014leading to an uneasy alliance between the Man of Steel and his greatest nemesis.<\/p>\n

Man of Tomorrow soars into theaters on July 9, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Hoult is ready to dive even deeper into Lex Luthor\u2019s mind, teasing that Man of Tomorrow will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-219909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}