Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor, because Michael Cera is already booked.
I'm
sure that's the kind of reaction that DC was expecting and I'm all too
happy to give it to them. And it's not even because I'm angry about the
casting. I actually kinda like it. I, unlike so many others, have
perspective. The perspective that comes from an reading too many comic
books. I understand that there are many different versions of Lex
Luthor, and that Jesse Eisenberg fits into a few of them. Dare I say,
this casting is brave...and bold. Please, hold your applause, because
that joke was awful.
Still, you're gonna
have to go through the initial shock of people saying, "The fucking dude
that played Mark Zuckerberg is gonna be Lex Luthor?"
I
saw a guy on Facebook that said, "Is he going to invent Facebook to
defeat Superman?" Really, that's the level of discourse DC has to face,
and it's not like Jesse Eisenberg has given the fans a ton of ammo to
throw back at him. This won't go much past unfunny Facebook jokes and
DC will be fine with that, because they already weathered the worst of
this storm with Ben Affleck. That was an epic tantrum, and once we got
past that, it's like people couldn't really get that mad anymore. It
was like the world said, "Okay, we all know this flick is gonna suck.
They really can't do any worse than this."
And after
that, Gal Gadot just got questions about her physique, mostly because
no one knows who she is. Jesse Eisenberg is just getting bad jokes,
like the ones I've written just now. It's all just been diminishing
nerdrage, so we'll probably be done with this story by Monday. No one
even noticed that Jeremy Irons is playing Alfred.
I saw
more outrage yesterday that Fox wants Channing Tatum to play Gambit in a
future X-Men movie. It wouldn't be a surprise that Fox was thinking
about doing some more bad X-Men casting, but people were legit mad at
that, I guess because Channing Tatum is too sexy or can't act or
something. As if Gambit is a character filled with such pathos that
only a Shakespearean actor could capture it all. Anyway, the X-Men
flicks are filled with terrible decisions. I still believe that Halle
Berry was cast because she was the only black person the producers could
name.
Warner Bros. is supposed to be better than
that. Or at least Christopher Nolan is and Zach Snyder are. And I'm
willing to give it a chance, because as I've said trying to talk people
off the ledge today, it all depends on what kind of Lex Luthor will be
in the movie. You got your "evil businessman" Lex Luthor (who could
stomp ass), and you got your "sociopath scientist" Lex Luthor (who could
not). I think the second one is something Eisenberg can work with. As
long as he's not on there talking about being the "greatest criminal
mind of our time," I think we'll be fine.
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