SUPERMAN: LEGACY - James Gunn May Be Eyeing A GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Star To Play "Apex" Lex Luthor

@tmp3 - you’re right. But the commitment is where I feel like he may waver. Rocket isn’t a tough one. A few days in a recording booth

Idk what to think of Bullit sequel but Speilberg isn’t a bad get for that by any means.

@tmp3 - 10 years off the rip is crazy. Early MCU handled contracts like extensions mostly. And they did it by picture not years. Stan had the longest I think at 9.

@Midnaslament - she definitely makes sense for the role!!!

@TheIronDuck - Would be cool but maybe a bit too confusing for the general audience tbh.

@ObserverIO - Not really considering we had just seen Viola Davis in the first Suicide Squad not that long ago before seeing her in the reboot/sequel, whereas the last time people saw Rosenbaum as Luthor was from a tv show that was taken off the air 12 years ago.

@RolandD - "Kind of like how Scorsese is always casting that Di Nero guy."

Who thinks that is a good thing?

@Asterisk - Interesting...Martin Scorsese made a film called the "Wolf of Wall Street" made in the same style as his much praised films "Casino" and "Goodfellas" which did not include "that Di Nero guy". It was successful critically acclaimed proving their is no need to continuously cast Deniro in every film other than to support a crony.

@MisterKite - I am not unsympathetic to people hiring individuals they feel comfortable working with...hell if I were his position, I would probably do it to some small degree... But I would absolutley draw the line when it became a disservice to the company that employs me or to fans. Gunn takes it to an extreme and he does it at other people's expense.

Ten years ago I wrote an editorial on this site because Zack Snyder replaced Christian Bale as the Batman for the DCEU. This was complete cronyism run amok. Bale had already proven to be a popular Batman (the most popular) and had earned the right to continue in the role. Affleck (who was at the time good friends with the President of Warner Brothers) was shamelessly added to the role over the objections of fans and under the guise that Snyder had some "creative" reason to make the change. That was bull crap!!! And as I have been saying for the past ten-years that fateful decision started the downfall of the studio, lost money for its shareholders and the people that were once employed with the studio had their reputations and career opportunities blemished.

Fast foward to the present, and Gunn is doing the SAME THING all over again and is blowing smoke up peoples behind by claiming he needs to replace Henry Cavill for a new "creative" direction despite the fact he is the most popular Superman anywhere and has a large dedicated fan base. The studio is now put in the position that they have to HOPE a new Superman will be embraced as much as Cavill was. Gunn's fake proclamations that they need to start over is clearly a lie since he is keeping Viola Davis, Margot Robbie and his wife among others who were ALL part of the previous DC Universe. Here is another case in which his decisions are self serving and not in service of his employers or the fans.

@MrDandy - @RolandD - "Nolan also used the same actors in all his movies"

Why would that be a good thing?

Out of a cast of upwards of 20-30 people, Nolan might use 2 - 5 people he worked with before. Gunn used almost 20 of the same people in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 as he used in The Suicide Squad including 2 members (four altogether) of his own family.

Meassage to all those strugling actors...you need to befriend or marry into the family of James Gunn to be in his films.

@ObserverIO - I don't understand why people keep brining up Nolan. He has cast his uncle in his films - John Nolan who happenes to be an established actor before Christopher Nolan was born. Other than that, I am not aware of any other person in his family that he cast. That stated Christopher Nolan is just as wrong, unless his uncle does not take a salary for his films. No matter who does it, it is STILL WRONG!

@Forthas - you have got to let that TDK bring bale back shit go, it wasn’t happening ever

@Forthas - has 0 to do with not bringing bale and Nolan (both who didn’t want to + that Batman hit its story end + literally didn’t fit in a world with powered people)

Has everything to do with Snyder being trash at managing a universe and his fake high brow ideas of superheroes as a mythological collection