While the general public has to wait a little more than two years for Superman: Legacy to reach their eye, writer/director James Gunn and his team have been busy lately with a key step in the filmmaking process: casting. Over the last few weeks, the search for who will play Clark Kent and Lois Lane in this upcoming DC movie has been narrowing down, and it may not be too much longer until we learn who’s been selected for these roles. In the midst of this though, there’s apparently been movement on finding Legacy’s Lex Luthor, with two frontrunners being reported.
According to THR, a shortlist of Lex Luthor actors has been assembled, and brothers Alexander Skarsgård and Bill Skarsgård are said to be on it. This doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the top two choices for the role at the moment, but evidently there’s interest in seeing how they could do as Superman’s arch-nemesis. It was also mentioned that it’s unclear right now if Nicholas Hoult, who’s one of the final contenders for Superman, might be put into the Luthor running again, as it’d been reported he initially tried out to play the villain before being tested as Clark Kent instead.
