{"id":358457,"date":"2025-12-20T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358457\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:55:07","slug":"man-of-tomorrow-casts-lars-eidinger-as-brainiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358457\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Of Tomorrow Casts Lars Eidinger as Brainiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGerman actor Lars Eidinger will play the super-intelligent antagonist Brainiac in <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\" data-tag=\"james-gunn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn<\/a>\u2018s next \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a>\u201d installment, \u201cMan of Tomorrow.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGunn confirmed the casting in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSffVWjgIBb\/?igsh=ODF5Z28zbXR1ZGZz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post<\/a> Saturday morning. He wrote in the caption, \u201cIn our worldwide search for Brainiac in \u2018Man of Tomorrow,\u2019 Lars Eidinger rose to the top. Welcome to the DCU, Lars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrainiac is a hyperintelligent alien android with a tyrannical thirst for absolute knowledge of the universe. He\u2019s known for shrinking entire planets and collecting them in glass jars or exterminating them outright if they aren\u2019t to his preference. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino in 1958, \u201cMan of Tomorrow\u201d marks the first appearance of the character in a major DC motion picture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSuperman\u201d stars David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult will both return for \u201cMan of Tomorrow,\u201d which is set for release on July 9, 2027. Gunn <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/superman-sequel-release-date-man-of-tomorrow-july-2027-1236506322\/\">unveiled the release date<\/a> back in September and shared a photo of Lex Luthor and Superman looking unusually chummy, which could mean the arch enemies are teaming up to take on the new intergalactic foe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEidinger most recently appeared in Noah Baumbach\u2019s awards hopeful \u201cJay Kelly.\u201d His other recent film credits include \u201cDead Language,\u201d \u201cThe Light\u201d and \u201cDying,\u201d which was nominated for best film at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Eidinger is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSuperman\u201d marked Gunn\u2019s directorial debut as DC Studios co-head with Peter Safran. The film was released on July 11 and grossed more than $616 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing superhero film of 2025. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German actor Lars Eidinger will play the super-intelligent antagonist Brainiac in James Gunn\u2018s next \u201cSuperman\u201d installment, \u201cMan of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,867,337,5769],"class_list":{"0":"post-358457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-james-gunn","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}