While the DCEU concerns itself with the fallout of casting Jesse Eisenberg as the ignoble Lex Luthor, expect its TV counterpart to do the complete opposite by bringing the bald bad guy back to how he should be: a cold, calculating and sophisticated villain.
Not much has been heard of Metropolis since its announcement earlier in the year, but it's still slated for a 2019 release and we can expect it to take a similar approach to the Man of Steel's stories as Gotham did with Batman's. Indeed, that's been made evident by the show's synopsis, which promises a series that will focus on "Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as they investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city's dark and bizarre secrets."
That's... pretty out there, needless to say. However, anything beats Eisenberg's Lex, and while we eagerly await news of who will play the series' two leads, we can only hope that Metropolis finds the perfect balance between attempting something new, and displaying reverence for the material on which it is based.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
