Thread 149874406

What's next for Lex Luthor?

>>149874406 (OP)
Getting pregant with superman's baby

>>149874406 (OP)
Baby trapping Superman

>>149874406 (OP)
Honestly? I think we'll get a riff on All-Star Superman. Not a one to one thing, but bits and pieces.

Elseworld solo origin film that ends with a guy stealing his identity and fortune.

>>149874496
How come Superman never gets fingerprinted when he gets arrested?

Legion of doom hopefully

>>149875350
Can't adaptations be inspired by something other than Kingdom Come and All Star? It's become tiresome.

>>149874406 (OP)
I feel like President Luthor is off the table unless there's a major status quo shift. Plus they already wasted the "I caused a major political/international shift just to piss you off, Superman" line

>>149875350
Gunn's version of Lex is petty and more self-serving than the comic book versions, especially the All-Star version. Essentially, all of Hoult's version is a riff on the classic real estate scheme of the Hackman (and Spacey) movie Lex versions: Hoult's Lex was going to end up king of his own country that apparently had additional - apparently valuable - natural resources, plus would have given him diplomatic and sovereign immunity.

The All Star version was more Mad Scientist but driven by a desire for power and to surpass Superman in the adoration and admiration of humanity, which while Hoult's portrayal of Lex certainly shows him as petty and jealous, he doesn't seem to be doing anything for admiration, acceptance or even care, for example, about being adored by his own sycophantic minions - thus likely would have no interest in being adored by the mobs (as he was in Waid's Birthright and other comic runs).

>>149876303
Having lex do real estate scams feels beneath him idk what they were thinking with those ones

>>149875530
>superman 1 and 2 based off the silver and gold age (because neither had come out yet)
>superman returns inspired by 1 and 2 instead of any particular comic
>man of steel inspired by man of steel (duh)
>BVS "inspired" by death of superman (for about 10 seconds)
more like not enough are inspired by kingdom come and all-star superman

if anything, man of steel is the gold standard for adaptations
with the synder movie being based off of it
but STAS also directly lifting a lot of scenes and dialogue straight out of john byrne
BVS also loosely adapts that batman and superman wouldnt trust each other when they meet, something that was stared by man of steel

>>149876314
I want to think Gunn tossed it in as an Easter Egg to the old movies more than really thinking it was a genuine plot point, because otherwise it was pretty stupid - and I do think giving Gunn more credit than assembling something from a collection of other ideas and tropes, and then adding his patina (some body horror/humor, some fart joke tier humor, his music cues, etc.) is pretty much all Gunn is capable of.

No one is ever going to say he's more than a simply a very competent and technically capable filmmaker.

>>149876303
Anon, Lex explicity states that the result of the conflict is just an added bonus. His main goal is to utterly destroy Superman AND be thanked for it.

They raped the Joker. and now they're going to rape me!!!