Superman, James Gunn and Lex Luthor
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Like his animated counterpart, the Luthor in the 2025 Superman is carrying out a complicated war against Superman that comes with a huge cash outlay: He covertly supplies the fictional nation of Boravia with $80 billion in weapons, plotting with the Boravian president to seize control of neighboring Jarhanpur, then split the country between them.
Superman is here and it has definitely met many of the expectations that were set for it. It has everything you could want from a summer blockbuster movie, and its biggest strength is its characters.
Nicholas Hoult plays the perfect megalomaniac, Lex Luthor, in James Gunn’s “Superman.” As Superman’s arch-nemesis, the powerful owner of LutherCorp, he can’t stand that people look up to the Man of Steel and not him.
The following contains spoilers from James Gunn’s Superman movie, now in theaters. A significant plot element from James Gunn’s Superman film will factor into Peacemaker Season 2. Vice versa, actually.