Your favorite actor playing Lex Luthor

[The Unconquered Sun]

Because why should actors playing The Joker have all the fun.
Just like the title says, whose portrayal of Luthor is you favorite?
For me it was Spacey in Super Returns. He nailed it with a boiling anger, you could see him saying "that f***ing alien" with just his eyes. That to me was Lex Luthor.

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

[Hit Girl]

John Shea

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Clancy Brown, followed by Michael Rosenbaum and then Kevin Spacey.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Clancy Brown, Gene Hackman, John Shea, Michael Rosenbaum

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[Malcolm]

Clancy Brown

[Kevin Hamilton]

Rosenbaum is the best live action Lex. Which, given that he was given the most time playing it and was given a way more nuanced character to play makes sense.

But he was easily the best part of that show, and it's impressive that he did better with the character than two Oscar winners. Though again, those latter two were mainly working off a cartoony template they did well with.

[xCompackx]

Kevin Spacey was great and a severe case of "actor too good for the movie he's in".

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

I grew up with the Gene Hackman luthor so him.

Special mentions to Kevin Spacey developing Frank Underwood in Superman Returns though.

But the answer from all of us should've been Bryan Cranston if they didn't f***ed up the casting of Batman v Superman.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jun 17, 2017 14:35:52 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

But the answer from all of us should've been Bryan Cranston if they didn't f***ed up the casting of Batman v Superman.

I just choose to imagine that we live in the universe where Cranston was cast and was amazing, singlehandedly turning that shitshow of a movie into something decent.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jun 17, 2017 21:10:11 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Jun 17, 2017 14:35:52 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

But the answer from all of us should've been Bryan Cranston if they didn't f***ed up the casting of Batman v Superman.

I just choose to imagine that we live in the universe where Cranston was cast and was amazing, singlehandedly turning that shitshow of a movie into something decent.

Superman's biggest foe needs to have the presence to stand up to a god and show no fear, instead we got a guy who can't bring fear to a kitten.

To quote Jay Z, Jesse Eisenberg can't even bust a grape in a fruit fight.

[Limity (BLM)]

Jun 17, 2017 14:35:52 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I grew up with the Gene Hackman luthor so him.

Special mentions to Kevin Spacey developing Frank Underwood in Superman Returns though.

But the answer from all of us should've been Bryan Cranston if they didn't f***ed up the casting of Batman v Superman.

God Cranston would have made that movie so much better. I'm confident that his portrayal could believably put the fear into a super strong flying alien and billionaire vigilante.

[Limity (BLM)]

Jun 17, 2017 21:24:10 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jun 17, 2017 21:10:11 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

I just choose to imagine that we live in the universe where Cranston was cast and was amazing, singlehandedly turning that shitshow of a movie into something decent.

Superman's biggest foe needs to have the presence to stand up to a god and show no fear, instead we got a guy who can't bring fear to a kitten.

To quote Jay Z, Jesse Eisenberg can't even bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Great minds...

[Jiren]

Clancy brown

But if we're going live action only then Hackman

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Much like Mark Hamil for Joker, Clancy Brown for Luthor.

Live action... eh Spacey or Hackman.

Granted neither were playing what I generally thinking of Luthor since... well Spacey was reprising Hackman and in the comics at the time of the original Superman Movie Luthor was still in regular mad scientist mode.

[Zone Was Wrong]

Clancy Brown and Micheal Rosenbaum. Not a fan of the. Movie versions tbh

[Bub (BLM)]

I won't count animation, otherwise Clancy Brown runs away with it.

I've got to go with Michael Rosebaum. Smallville was a horrendous adaptation of Superman, and it butchered the DCU. However, amidst all the garbage, Rosenbaum gave an incredible performance as Lex Luthor, perfectly capturing the character. I wish like hell that his Lex was in BvS.

[riseofsetian1981]

Jun 17, 2017 21:28:48 GMT -5 Limity (BLM) said:

Jun 17, 2017 14:35:52 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I grew up with the Gene Hackman luthor so him.

Special mentions to Kevin Spacey developing Frank Underwood in Superman Returns though.

But the answer from all of us should've been Bryan Cranston if they didn't f***ed up the casting of Batman v Superman.

God Cranston would have made that movie so much better. I'm confident that his portrayal could believably put the fear into a super strong flying alien and billionaire vigilante.

To be fair, they can still bring in Cranston as the real Luthor. Just state he abandoned his son and lets him spend the rest of his life in prison while the real Luthor shows up.

Kill two birds with one stone.

[Cela]

Clancy Brown. I like menacing corporate Luthor, not wacky goofy intellectual crap Luthor like Hackman or Spacey or Mark Zuckerberg.