Jesse Eisenberg Steps Out After Lex Luthor Casting News

Risky casting. I LOVE IT!

So it's just a couple of pictures of him in New York. I don't get it, why is this news?

that's because Snyder is pulling a Mandarin on everyone and only using Eisenberg for flashback scenes

MoS 2 is exciting, obviously, but the stalking of actors and useless pages are annoying.

@TheBlackNerd

We'll he just got cast recently, so if he is going to be buff it's not like he is going to suddenly buff straight away. Meaning this article is pointless.

What are you jack offs talkng about? Its definitely news.

It tells us Eisenberg isn't filming, isn't in detroit, hasn't shaved his head and didn't buff up at all for the role.

It took you morons longer to comment than not to click on it, lol.

There's this thing called schedule that these actors follow.

@TheBlackNerd

I don't think Lex needs to be vin diesel or the rock big but it would be good for the guy to put on just a few more pounds.

I agree.
He doesn't need to be overly muscular at all, really.

It's not even necessarily important to the character in every occasion.
He can just be a man of average build. In shape, but not someone who looks like they've been on some kind of HGH.

I WOULD however prefer he not look like a teenager (or an actor who could pass as one) because then he comes across visually as a young know-it-all or some sort of smart-aleck whiz-kid and that puts me off.

I would have preferred he look more like a traditional adult, and not one that could very likely be carded when trying to a buy beer. Jesse can build as much muscle as he can/needs before filming, but he's still not going to lose that baby-face any time soon, because at age 30(?) he still has it.

Hey you can't have everything, though. I get that. Whatever.

I'm not even saying it couldn't work for the role in a very different way, but I'd be lying if I said I personally wasn't skeptical.

@cosmicman

Err, exactly - he isn't filming, he isn't prepping just yet - there's nothing new. As I mentioned in my other post, you don't see people grabbing shots on the internet of Chris Evans walking around in NY because its proof that he isn't filming Avengers 2.

As I said, MoS 2 is very exciting, but people need to stop making these useless posts.

Movie will be bad

And I don't usually gripe

His girlfriend is Mia Wasikowska?! Nicccceeee. Anyway, I hope he doesn't go bald. Kind of hoping for a slicked back Lex.

....I was thinking by the title that this meant he was stepping out of the role of Lex Luthor

I know it's not going to happen but I so wish he was playing Lex in flashbacks. This way you could see how it took Lex years to get as powerful as he is then Superman takes it away. Plus with him being so young he can't have bought a third of Metropolis yet. I could see LexCorp being DC's version of Google. Just imagine twenty or thirty years from now what Google will be doing in the Robotics and AI industry. The same thing with Elon Musk company SpaceX and his Hyperloop invention. I just don't see him having his hand in the Military and Government side yet at such a young age yet. He definitely is not presidential yet.

Maybe I will be wrong and they will say he made his first Billion when he was only ten and so by his thirties he should be pretty powerful and rich. I just personally see WB saying more that his company is still in the infancy stages. But I so hope to be wrong and he has been building his empire for years.

But just think how cool it would be to see flashbacks of Lex in the 70 or 80s building his prototypes of Nanotechnology or Holographic Technology. Back then when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were making basic computers Lex would be working on far out there technology. Even people like Richard Branson which Zack Snyder said he was basing this version of Lex off of looks completely different now then in the 70s. So just imagine if Jesse was to play the young nerd version and a different actor was to play the suave version. That looks like he could rule the world.

I know that's not going to happen but it would have been interesting to see. This way you give more story to Lex which could have been nice to see.

I think the flashback idea sounds pretty cool...IF Batman were not in this... Would've been interesting seeing it hop around throughout Lex's life just like MOS did with Clark/Supes...showing his rise to power, building his company, having events from the first film coincide with the second..

Unfortunately, you can't flesh out such a villain with Batman and WW hogging the show...

Unless Bruce Wayne had some corporate correlation to young Lex...?? Hmmmmm...

Jesse Eisenberg is actually only 5'7. I'm two inches taller than him, and I'm supposed to believe he is Lex Luthor?

I would think if Lex Luthor was real, he would be taller than me, not shorter.

And it looks like he didn't do any physical training to prepare for the film either.

Why do people assume he was cast on the day of the announcement or recently beforehand? He could have had the role for months...