Earlier than asking Jesse Eisenberg to rock a bald head, Zack Snyder thought of Leonardo DiCaprio for the position of Lex Luthor.
Whereas chatting lately with Josh Horowitz on his Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast, Snyder admitted that he mentioned the 2016 movie Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice with the Oscar-winning star of Killers of the Flower Moon.
“I feel, in the long run, he was like, ‘eh, I don’t know.’ However he was actually sensible in regards to the materials and actually sensible in regards to the character,” stated Snyder, who added that DiCaprio “had a number of nice concepts, truly, simply within the assembly … I feel he was the one which talked about to me this concept about Superman combating the Justice League in some unspecified time in the future.”
Snyder went on to say he additionally talked to Adam Driver in regards to the position of the crafty billionaire.
In 2022, Josh Brolin advised the identical podcast that he nearly was forged as Batman in Snyder’s superhero movies however misplaced out to Ben Affleck in Batman v. Superman: Daybreak of Justice and the Justice League follow-up. Brolin stated the thought “was attention-grabbing” to him, however as for Snyder’s eventual alternative, “That was his resolution, that wasn’t my resolution.”
“Actually, that might have been a enjoyable deal,” Brolin added. “And perhaps I’ll do it once I’m 80.”
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