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Brainiac has arrived! German actor Lars Eidinger will play the DC Comics mega-villain in Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, director and studio co-head James Gunn announced on social media Saturday.\n<\/p>\n

“In our worldwide search for Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, Lars Eidinger rose to the top,” Gunn wrote on Twitter\/X and Threads. “Welcome to the DCU, Lars.”\n<\/p>\n

Eidinger joins David Corenswet, who stars as Clark Kent\/Kal-El, and Nicholas Hoult, who plays Lex Luthor, in the upcoming follow-up to Superman<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Gunn first teased the arrival of Brainiac<\/a> in September when he posted a photo of the Man of Tomorrow script. The cover featured a brain-centric image, but the filmmaker has played coy on the matter until now.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“Listen, of course I wasn’t unaware that when I posted the cover of the script that there was going to be discussion around that particular topic,” he told Entertainment Weekly later that month<\/a>. “But I think we’ll hold off from what exactly is happening.”\n<\/p>\n

Eidinger is a Berlin-based actor and rapper. He is perhaps most internationally recognized for playing Reinhold von Rumpel, the cruel Gestapo officer in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See. He also appeared in HBO miniseries Irma Vep, starring Alicia Vikander, as the drug-addicted actor Gottfried.\n<\/p>\n

This year, he starred in the George Clooney- and Adam Sandler-fronted awards season contender Jay Kelly. Its director, Noah Baumbach, previously cast Eidinger in his 2022 film, White Noise.\n<\/p>\n

Superman, released this past summer, saw tech billionaire Lex Luthor pitting his brains against the Man of Steel’s brawn in a fight that nearly destroyed all of Metropolis. Man of Tomorrow, coming to theaters July 9, 2027, will depict them working together against a bigger threat. We now know that threat is Brainiac.\n<\/p>\n

David Corenswet’s Superman and Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor in 2025’s ‘Superman’.<\/p>\n

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“It’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie,” Gunn told Howard Stern<\/a> of the sequel in September. “I loved working with Nicholas Hoult. I relate to the character of Lex, sadly. I really wanted to create something extraordinary with the two of them. I just love the script so much.”\n<\/p>\n

Other casting for the movie has not been confirmed, but Isabela Merced<\/a>, who played Hawkgirl in\u00a0Superman\u00a0and\u00a0Peacemaker\u00a0season 2, teased her\u00a0involvement in Man of Tomorrow,\u00a0writing “see you soon” in a past Instagram Story<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Gunn describes Man of Tomorrow as the next installment of the “Superman Saga,” which will also include next year’s Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock as Kal-El’s troubled boozehound cousin Kara Zor-El. Based on the acclaimed Woman of Tomorrow comic book arc, that film will enter our orbit on June 26, 2026.\n<\/p>\n