@MyTimeToShineH<\/a>, “There are mostly unknown names and [three]\u00a0big names testing for Brainiac (so far).” That’s all we have to go on for now, but it’s previously been reported that the actor who plays the villain will don prosthetics for a physical transformation.\u00a0<\/p>\nMany fans were initially disappointed when Gunn went back to the Lex Luthor well for Superman. We don’t know whether it was always the plan for Brainiac to take centre stage in a sequel, but the filmmaker does appear to have listened to fans eager to see him on screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brainiac looks set to be a big enough threat to the DCU for Superman and Lex to put their differences aside. Whether he’ll be part of the “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters” slate beyond that remains to be seen, but there’s every chance he’ll somehow be tied to the Quantum Unfolding Chamber and “Salvation.<\/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,”\u00a0Gunn previously said of the Brainiac speculation.\u00a0“But I think we’ll hold off from what exactly is happening.”<\/p>\n
“Everything’s connected, so there is a story here that we’re telling throughout the DCU, and this is connected very much to Man of Tomorrow,”\u00a0the DC Studios co-CEO later said of how\u00a0Peacemaker\u00a0leads into the movie.\u00a0“But there are other elements, and part of that is the relationship between Rick Flag and Lex Luthor, and that’s an important thing going forward in the DCU and Man of Tomorrow and so on.”<\/p>\n
“It’s more complicated than that, but that’s a big part of it. It’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie,”\u00a0Gunn continued.\u00a0“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.”<\/p>\n
Written and directed by James Gunn,\u00a0Man of Tomorrow\u00a0stars\u00a0David Corenswet as Clark Kent\/Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Isabela Merced as Kendra Saunders\/Hawkgirl, and Frank Grillo as Rick Flag, Sr.<\/p>\n
Several actors and characters are rumoured to appear, including Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart\/Green Lantern and John Cena’s Peacemaker. Recent reports point to Gunn possibly looking to cast the DCU’s Wonder Woman, while\u00a0Dracula\u00a0star\u00a0Claes Bang has been named as a possible contender for Brainiac.<\/p>\n
Man of Tomorrow\u00a0arrives in theaters on\u00a0July 9, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to casting the DCU’s heroes and villains, scooping up pricey A-listers hasn’t been a huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,29449,397],"class_list":["post-152292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-man-of-tomorrow","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}