SUPERMAN: Lex Luthor Actor Nicholas Hoult Wants To Team Up With The Joker

SUPERMAN: Lex Luthor Actor Nicholas Hoult Wants To Team Up With The Joker

As rumors swirl about a potential World's Finest movie, Lex Luthor actor Nicholas Hoult says he wants to team up with the Joker in a future DCU movie.

By MarkJulian - Jul 03, 2025 07:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Superman
Source: ComicBook.com

In Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, Lex Luthor and the Joker first teamed up in the three-part 1997 episode titled "World's Finest."

In the crossover event, the story kicks off in Gotham City, where the Joker pulls off a heist involving a giant statue made of Kryptonite. After securing the radioactive prize, he makes his way to Metropolis with a plan in mind. There, he approaches Lex Luthor and proposes a deal: he’ll take down Superman if Luthor agrees to pay him a huge sum in return.

This leads Superman and Batman to inevitably cross paths and one-up each other by figuring out their respective secret identities. They team up and eventually stop Lex and the Joker, setting the stage for the later arrival of another fantastic animated series, Justice League.

Could something similar happen in the DCU, where audiences are introduced to a reverse take on the World's Finest?

While out on the press tour, Lex Luthor actor Nicholas Hoult stated that the Joker is someone he wants Lex to meet and team up with.

Superman arrives in theaters on July 11, officially kicking off the movie side of James Gunn’s reimagined DC Universe.

A private screening for critics and select online personalities took place on June 25 at the Warner Bros. lot, though full reviews won’t be released until July 7. Prime Video subscribers will also have access to early screenings on July 8.

The film, previously titled Superman: Legacy, is written and directed by Gunn and marks the beginning of a new era for DC's cinematic storytelling.

David Corenswet leads the cast as Clark Kent, better known as Superman. Joining him are Rachel Brosnahan as the determined reporter Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as the ruthless and intelligent Lex Luthor.

Several other DC heroes make their big-screen debut, including Nathan Fillion as the impulsive Green Lantern Guy Gardner, Isabela Merced as the fierce Hawkgirl, and Edi Gathegi as the sharp-minded Mister Terrific.

The supporting cast features Sean Gunn as manipulative businessman Maxwell Lord, María Gabriela de Faría as the tech-enhanced Angela Spica (also known as The Engineer), and Terence Rosemore as Otis. Wendell Pierce will play Daily Planet editor Perry White, and Sara Sampaio appears as Eve Teschmacher.

Anthony Carrigan portrays Metamorpho, the Element Man who can change his body into different substances. Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell play Jonathan and Martha Kent, the Kansas couple who raised Clark.

Milly Alcock also makes her debut as Supergirl, with a standalone film already in development for the character.

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Matador
Matador - 7/3/2025, 8:03 AM
Let's be honest here he didn't read he watched the same cartoon we all did.
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/3/2025, 8:50 AM
@Matador - doesn’t need be cartoon happens in comics
jst5
jst5 - 7/3/2025, 10:01 AM
@Matador - He brought it up on Rosenbaum's pod that he had just got an order to his home of a number of comics and planned to read them over the next few weeks.So he probably did read it.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/3/2025, 8:10 AM
That would be fun!!.

I know people are tired of the Joker on screen (and rightfully so) but he is probably my favorite Batman villain so I’ll always be down to see more of him sooner than later…

Ewan Mitchell for DCU Joker!!.

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Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 7/3/2025, 8:28 AM
@TheVisionary25 - If Reeves ends up using Barry Keoghan's Joker in The Batman II, I'd wager we won't see the DCU Joker until at least the second Batman outing.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/3/2025, 8:31 AM
@Clintthahamster - most likely , that sounds about right.
Toecutter
Toecutter - 7/3/2025, 8:31 AM
@TheVisionary25 - I'm not tired of the Joker. Technically, we haven't had a proper Joker in a Batman movie since 2008.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/3/2025, 8:36 AM
@Toecutter - true

I didn’t like Leto’s version and I thought Keoghan did well in the deleted scene from the Batman but we barely saw him in the actual film.
Toecutter
Toecutter - 7/3/2025, 8:52 AM
@TheVisionary25 - The only thing I didn't like about Keoghan's Joker is the design. I hope they fix it a bit if he returns, but I did like the Hannibal Lecter vibes they were going for in the deleted scene.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/3/2025, 8:57 AM
@Toecutter - yeah , I wasn’t a big fan of the design either but I liked how creepy he was and his laugh at the end.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 7/3/2025, 8:18 AM
Chris Pratt or Dave Bautista for the Joker
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 7/3/2025, 10:20 AM
@AllsNotGood - nah
It MUST be Willem Dafoe!
ElJefe
ElJefe - 7/3/2025, 8:29 AM
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 7/3/2025, 8:33 AM
@ElJefe - Blade?
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bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/3/2025, 8:40 AM
@HashTagSwagg - hurr durr racism is funny
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/3/2025, 9:21 AM
@ElJefe - He'd be a perfect Doctor Strange. Or Warren Worthington III/Angel in the X-Men.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 7/3/2025, 8:55 AM
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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/3/2025, 9:27 AM
@MisterBones - lmfao... Love that. But I hate when they bleep out the swearing in the comics.

If there's swearing just up the rating. It's not like movies where you have to have a low rating to make money. In point of fact the comics that don't bleep out swearing (whether they have swearing in them or not) are the ones that make money. It's this middle ground that fails.
It's too edgy for children and too parental for adults. Swear or don't swear. F^$& Dingbats!
MisterBones
MisterBones - 7/3/2025, 9:30 AM
@ObserverIO - clearly agree with you. It’s always annoyed me. Just change the rating, like you said.
grif
grif - 7/3/2025, 11:00 AM
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

more jokerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Forthas
Forthas - 7/3/2025, 11:26 AM
This team up is a terrible idea! Each of these character's personalities is antithetical to a duo. In the case of Luthor he teams up with others but he is essentially using them. Joker would not team up per say but manipulate someone into doing what he needs done. I don't think Joker could be easily used by Luthor and I also don't think Joker could manipulate Luthor.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/3/2025, 12:37 PM
They had some fun banter in the cartoons, I'm for it.

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