We know that Man of Steel 2 will be a Batman vs. Superman movie. We know Batman will be there, and that he will be played by Ben Affleck. WE now know that Wonder Woman will have a cameo, and she will be played by Gal Gadot. But we still don't know if Lax Luthor will be there, or who will play him. I do believe that the next big announcement by the WB is that Lax will be in the movie, and we will find out who will play him.
Now I do think it's time for an African American Lex, and I think that Idris Elba is the best choice. I hope I don't need to explain why Idris is a great actor. And I really think he can pull out a great Lex.
Now how I will use Lex in this movie. Well first of all, I won't make him like the Gene Hackman Lex, because we already saw it, and it's time to see the Lex we all know and love from the comics.
So a year has passed since Man of Steel, and the humanity still don't really knows how to react to Superman and all what has happened in Man of Steel. Metropolis is now being rebuilt by LexCorp. The billionaire, Lex Luthor has donated billions of dollars to the people of the city, and his company is now rebuilding the broken city.
For this actions Lax is seen as a savior by the people of Metropolis and the world, and Lax himself talks against Superman, calling him an alien and a threat. Lex says that if Superman is a hero, why didn't he tried to minimize the damage to the city and its people when he was fighting Zod and his army. Lax says that if Superman wanted, he could use his powers to enslave mankind, and humanity will be powerless and helpless. Lax says there must be a fail-safe against the Man of Steel.
And so, while LexCorp was fixing Metropolis, his scientists have been collecting alien Tec.
Let's start with the first alien Tec: The escape pod.
When Superman and Lois escaped Zod’s ship, Lois used a very demerged escape pod, that later on crashed not far from the Kent farm. Don’t think that Superman came back to clean that mess, so what kept Luthors men from taking some of the pieces to the LexCorp lab?
Next Tec: Nam-Ek.
I never did understood what happened to good old Nam. He was fighting Superman in Smallville, and then Superman super punched him into a train, but then that same trained hit Superman. I always thought that Nam died in that fight, and his body was left lying around in Smallville. So I guess LexCorp had no problem taking that body, while Superman as busy saving the world.
The world engine:
The world engine did some damage in the Indian Ocean, but Superman did some damage to it also. We did see it blow up, but I think some of it survived the blast. And remember this Kryptonien Tec is making Superman sick.
Kryptonian scout spaceship:
Zod was flying it, but Superman crushed it (right in the middle of downtown), and it seemed like most of the ship is still intact after the crush.
Zod’s armor:
Zod couldn’t choose a better place to do a striptease show, and take off that armor. And that happened right in the middle of a LexCorp construction site.
Zod’s body:
So Superman kills Zod, but the big question is, did Superman took his body after that, or did LexCorp get their hands on it.
All this mean to one thing, Lex is going to use this Tec to find a way to fight Superman. He might give some of it to Batman, so Batman can kick Superman ass, or he might build a Mech suit, or do some kind a version of Metallo.
You can also watch a fan-made trailer I have created for this movie, with all my ideas for it:
Anyway, I think (and very much hope), that this is the direction that the WB is going with Lex in this movie.