Trending News|June 23, 2015 08:57 EDT
'Batman V Superman' Cast News: Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor Won't Be 'Silly'
Its safe to say that the highly anticipated 'Batman V Superman' movie will give fans something they have not yet seen before in the superhero genre.
The movie will serve to introduce a lot of characters within the DC cinematic world, and while most roles have been casted, one of the most peculiar casting decision has been Jesse Eisenberg as the villain Lex Luthor.
So far fans have only received a headshot of the actor in role, but our imaginations still run wild as to how he'll be represented.
Eisenberg gives some insight on the role in an interview with MTVÂ stating that he won't be "silly."
He explains:
"The expectations that I have are never the same expectations that an audience has. I don't have expectations for myself to adhere to a comic book character, but a lot of people are interested in how I would coincide with the comic book character. But it couldn't be farther from my mind, because I'm just playing a role.
"It's a really great character that's written by this guy, Chris Terrio, he's a phenomenal writer...He loves my character in the same way I love my character. He put a lot of work into it. It's a great character, there's an emotional core to the character. It's not this silly, villainous character. This is a real depiction of a person who thinks these things. So the challenge is to make it seem real."
He also compares the character to the Gene Hackman version:
"No, that's an entirely different thing. Also the tone of that movie is so different, that movie wouldn't be made that way now. The way we expect movies to be now, which is for the best probably, we expect there to be some kind of psychological accuracy. That the person is coming from a place that's probably diagnosable in some ways. This is not [a winking, knowing movie], this is a real depiction of a person who thinks these things."
'Dawn of Justice' is due in theaters on March 25, 2016.