This has been a very exciting week in the comic book world. It all started with Zack Snyder teasing us with a picture of the back of the Batmobile, then dropping the bomb that was the first image of Ben Affleck in the batsuit for Batman Vs. Superman. I figured maybe he would continue on and maybe drop some Wonder Woman teases. Sadly, that wasn’t the case today, but we have Jesse Eisenberg talking about playing Lex Luthor in the superhero romp.
I don’t know the history as well as the people making the movie, so I guess it’s up to them to figure out how much they want to separate it from previous incarnations. But I will treat it like it’s its own role. There’s no way to play the history of the character played by other people, unless you do some kind of wink, but that doesn’t seem like a responsible way to act. So I will just do it as though it’s a character, in the same way you do a movie like The Double, which is a smaller movie — but you just kind of treat it like a character, and that’s probably the best course of action, I think.
Eisenberg then was asked if one of the reasons why he took the role was because you’re pretty much guaranteed a multi-picture appearance.
The character’s really good, so it’s like doing anything else. They make a lot of those movies, so if you’re an actor in things, you will probably cross paths with it at some point. But the character’s written really well. It’s a really great role. The fact that it’s in a big movie, you know, it seems like a character that would be in any kind of movie. It just happens to be in a bigger, flashier kind of thing.
I think Eisenberg will bring a unique spin to the character, and I am really looking forward to it. Sadly we still have a whole two years before we get to see this movie, but let me know your thoughts about what Eisenberg had to say about the role.
Source: Comingsoon.net