What’re the chances we’ll ever see Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor again? Probably slim to none, and slim is quarantined somewhere with coronavirus. Eisenberg has never really sounded confident he’ll play the supervillain again, but that doesn’t mean he’s given up hope. While out doing press for his upcoming thriller Vivarium, Eisenberg said he’d be open to returning, because being the bad guy is where the fun is at…
“Oh yeah, I would love to because it’s such a cool character. To play a villain in a superhero movie is the fun part. The good guys are fine but the villain is the fun part cause you get to be more flamboyant. The hero usually gets to survive but the villain has all the funny lines.”
Eisenberg played Lex Luthor first in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, then reprised the role briefly at the end of Justice League. The latter movie’s very-public failure pretty much killed any future storylines involving Luthor, but it’s not as if the DCEU has ceased to exist. I suppose there’s always an outside shot he could return in another character’s movie, but it’s pretty unlikely.
