Leonardo DiCaprio nearly played Lex Luthor in BATMAN V SUPERMAN
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2024
- Zack Snyder reveals he talked to Leonardo DiCaprio about playing Lex Luthor and Tom Cruise wanted to be in WATCHMEN #happysadconfused #joshhorowitz #leonardodicaprio #tomcruise #zacksnyder
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Leo gave advice to Timothee Chalamet one time. "Don't do drugs or superhero movies". Now we know why he said that 😂
I don’t think it’s the worst thing in the world to do a superhero movie, but those roles are like quicksand. You sign half your life over to Marvel…
Tom passed on Iron Man and Ozymandias. Somebody needs to pull Tom aside.
He passed on Iron Man but not Watchmen, he just wanted to play Rorschach but Zack wanted him for Oz.
Yeah like because of that Tom is nearly an unknown actor these days🤦
@@mikeboy0001and he's gonna remain unknown if you don't say his flippin second name 😂. Which Tom are we talking about?
@@mikeboy0001Wait are you saying Tom CRUISE?!? Is an unknown actor these days? ..... Top Gun Maverick made a billion at the box office the other year and Dead Reckoning last year was an amazing film. He's cranking films out and people are pumped to see him
@@LoganScottY🤦
I see how Tom Cruise would have been an interesting choice for Ozymandias. He is a good guy who is loved and admired by the world and represents the public’s ideal of what a superhero should be and Cruise is the movie star equivalent to that. I love it when Cruise plays a villain and he would be able to make the character ambiguous and have the audience sympathize with him and his diabolical plan.
Cruise as Rorschach however? Not so sure about that one.
Cruise could play Bigfoot. He’s a much better actor than people give him credit for.
Lolololololololol nearly should be in quotation marks
That would have been amazing. I can totally see that. Just imagine how he played Calvin Candie in Django and apply it to Lex Luthor.
Leo wouldve elevated the film. Anyone but jesse tbh. He was just too over the top.
Eisenberg was an Oscar winning actor unlike the super overrated DiCaprio at the time.
Leo dodged a bullet.
Are you kidding? Eisenberg was brilliant as Luthor. He played the narcissistic crazed man child to perfection. It was a great part, similar to Caprio's Calvin Candy from Django.
@@rishabhaniket1952 If by brilliant, you mean dreadful, I agree. There was a total lack of menace in his performance. It was nothing like Calvin Candy. And even that comparison doesn't flatter because Calvin was supposed to be slightly pathetic whereas Lex is supposed to be brilliant.
@@nikunjdixit1175 bro successfully orchestrated Batman vs Superman fight, created Doomsday that killed Superman and you still say he wasn't brilliant. Sure.
@@Objective_Piece8285 That’s because his version of Batman and Superman were mind blowingly stupid.
@@Objective_Piece8285because we’re talking about the performance, not what his character did in the movie. Speaking of which the writing was pretty awful so I don’t blame Jesse at all.
Leo is always almost playing someone in superhero movies lol. Spider-Man, Riddler and now Lex.
Imagining tom cruise as rorschach.
Loved Jessie Eisenberg as Lex
Same
After seeing Social Network I was excited to see Eisenberg play Lex Luther…and he didn’t disappoint 👍
💯
From DiCaprio to Eisenberg.... Not saying he's a bad actor but his take on Lex was horrible
I loved it
Eisenberg is my favorite Lex but Leo would’ve bodied that role
Eisenberg was great!
He could have been good if the character was well written.
I liked Jesse as Alex Luthor Jr.
But Di Caprio may have been cool as a Batman villain, I think, had Ben Affleck’s Batman movie been made. Do believe that the SnyderVerse could have remained as an Elseworld.
Jessie as Lex is for me the best live action version.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Definitely one of the best
True 💯
WROOOOOOONG!
Zack is a nice guy, but the fact that Leo was the first place he heard of the idea of Superman fighting the Justice League is really telling. It’s not a new idea at all, it proves Zack knew very very little about the material and it shows in his DC movies. I know he has his fans and that’s fine, but I know I’m in the majority when I say his DC movies range from okay to disappointing.
Leo would have been a better Luthor
"He was really smart about the material" ... at least someone in the room was
😂😂
Eisenberg is a joke. Terrible choice for that role.
He was supposed to develop into a more serious character.
You obviously have never read a comic. Jesse's lex was actually comic book accurate.
Glad he didn't. It would have been a near-career-ending move.
How son? It'd be great
Career Kryptonite for him.
Batman v Superman was awful, that’s why. I understand it has its fans and that’s fine, but you guys are in the minority. Albeit a vocal one.
@@emoney6692 awful is your taste in movies. and lex luthor doesn't fit to dicaprio its miscasting
Never that 😄
I am going to take out the names of the characters when I am explaining myself and replace the names with "protagonist" and "antagonist" to highlight a point. Here is my perspective.
I am not going to pretend like Jesse was a conventional choice for the antagonist but I liked how a smart, wealthy, quirky, neurotic, and meticulous antagonist interacted with Henry Cavill's character. I liked the articulate and eloquent diatribes that Jesse went on. It went along well with the music and visuals that were in the movie. Could you have named Jesse's character something else? Sure. Does it really change the way the story played out whether his name was one thing or the another? No. This is the way I look at it. The entire story was going to be 5 movies long. Let's say Jesse's character was named something else so the criticism that his character was "illegitimate" or "In Name Only" was put to rest. It wasn't like there was going to be a situation where Jesse's character was going to prohibit another antagonist of the same name to be put to screen. It was never going to be a multiverse. Henry's character needed a foil and in the script Jesse's character served that purpose. From my experience with the antagonist's character he is a foil to the protagonist with intelligence, resources and who is ideologically opposed to the very Idea of the protagonists existence. Another benefit of Jesse's character is his physically more scrawny and unimposing appearance which highlights his inferiority complex to Henry's protagonist which is another key element of the character Jesse was playing and fits my understand of the character. In my perspective that is at the heart of the antagonists character. Another thing. Could we have gotten the bald headed, broad shouldered, deep voiced archetype that we typically associate with the antagonist? Sure. Would it have work? I am sure the story and vision for the movie could have been modified to facilitate that portrayal but then the story also becomes different. Anyway, I really enjoy this interviews. It is great to fascinating how much though really went into these decisions.
No he didn't
Jesse Eisenberg was perfect as modern day Lex Luthor. I don't know if the highly overrated DiCaprio would've pulled that.
Errrr, it’s very difficult to listen to someone call him overrated when you just, I dunno, glance at his resume. He’s not a favorite of mine, but he’s got like seven or eight championship belts…
How can this guy having made a great Watchmen, be the same who made trash Rebel Moon?
How could the guy who made Bladerunner 2049 make trash Dune or the guy who made War for PotA make trash The Batman?
@@AshrafAnam Obviously a troll, no way someone who liked Blade Runner 2049 would dislike Dune and love this Rebel Moon trash💩
I love it when Snyder just says outright lies. Leo was never gonna be in one of his shitty movies lmao
If Chris Nolan was also there he could’ve at least considered it.
Don’t forget Chris’s name also had a lot of weight added to the film when Man of Steel was being made.
Based on what we know, Nolan had little to no input on BvS as he did his on Man of Steel where he actually helped Zack with the story outline.