Justice League Screening Reportedly Did Not Feature Lex Luthor

A unexampled report advise Jesse Eisenberg ’s polarizing take on Superman ’s archenemy Lex Luthor does not currently sport in the cut ofJustice Leaguebeing screened for test audiences .

Eisenberg first present Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder’sBatman V Superman : Dawn of Justice . The performance borrowed a bit from Eisenberg ’s Academy Award nominate bend as Facebook founding father Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’sThe Social connection ; this version of Luthor was a vernal corporate mogul , sporting an off putting haircut , as well as lethal levels of narcism and arrogance . While there have been plenty of radically dissimilar takes on the graphic symbol over the old age , Eisenberg ’s Luthor was one of the more polarizing aspect of an already polarizing film , and fans were leave to enquire how the character would conform to into his announced appearance inJustice League .

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It wrench out he might not fit in at all . According toBatman-News.com , Eisenberg ’s Luthor is not present in the undercut of the film currently being screened for test audiences .

Batman News can confirm that the current gash of#JusticeLeaguedoes NOT include Jesse Eisenberg ’s Lex Luthor scenespic.twitter.com/MvEp8O0EIt — Batman-News.com ( @BatmanNewsCom)September 20 , 2017

While case have sure as shooting been excise from films before , this revelation sense fair loaded . Director Zack Snyder bowed out of the cinema ’s production following a family cataclysm in May , andAvengersdirector Joss Whedon was bring on to helm the moving-picture show ’s reshoots , tweak the handwriting , and oversee post yield . public debate has raged over how much Whedon is altering the film , andSnyder ’s verification that he ’s been mostly detached with the filmsince take off has only strengthened the notion thatJustice Leagueis , at the very least , equally Snyder and Whedon ’s film at this point .

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The exclusion of Eisenberg ’s Luthor seems to suggest Whedon might be falsify matter considerably . aside from being the most widely loathed type fromBatman V Superman , Luthor was also lay out up as a bridge between that film and the incoming foreign threat ofJustice League . That terror was always meant to be Steppenwolf , a lieutenant of DC uber - baddie Darkseid , but reports have suggested Darkseid ’s direct role in the movie has been scaled back considerably , which would part explicate why Luthor has been sidelined .

It ’s unlikely this is the closing of the crinkle for Eisenberg ’s Luthor , however . Warner Bros. is in dynamic development on aMan of Steelsequel -Kingsman : The Golden CircledirectorMatthew Vaughn has admitted to having give-and-take about helming that film- and it ’s punishing to reckon aSupermanfilm dealership where Lex Luthor is wholly absent . It just seems he wo n’t be returning to peril Batman and his super friends for this round .