Man of Tomorrow Brainiac Actor Compares His Superman Villain to 'an Incarnation of Satan'

Man of Tomorrow histrion Lars Eidinger has described his live-action instrumentality connected Superman villain Brainiac arsenic thing that is similar "an incarnation of Satan."

The antheral down the DC's adjacent large movie villain gave audiences their archetypal tease for what he's bringing to the DCU during an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter. Although the James Gunn-directed and David Corenswet-starring Superman sequel is inactive much than a twelvemonth retired from its theatrical premiere, Eidinger is propping up his world-conquering atrocious feline arsenic a menace of biblical proportions.

"Yes, the theatrical prime has really helped maine enormously successful the discourse of Superman, too, due to the fact that it involves a antithetic registry of performance, 1 that isn’t chiefly realistic and allows for a acold much expressive benignant of playing," helium said erstwhile asked however his enactment successful theatre has helped successful onscreen. "When I ticker a movie similar James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, I find it has a large theatrical prime — successful the handling of bully and evil, and successful a definite inclination toward allegory. Brainiac is described arsenic the incarnation of Satan. I find that astir Shakespearean. The king, the fool — determination are truthful galore parallels for me."

Brainiac is not lone a recognizable Superman villain; he's 1 of the astir infamous comic publication characters successful history. Readers and movie watchers person done their champion to prime up connected each small item Gunn has dropped erstwhile it comes to teases for a DCU mentation of the mean, greenish antagonist, but the information is, astir accusation is astir apt being saved for person to the merchandise of Man of Tomorrow.

Eidinger says his Brainiac volition springiness Corenswet's Clark Kent a tally for his money, adjacent if we don't cognize precisely however rather yet. Elsewhere successful the interview, the histrion opened up astir however helium was pulled into the budding DCU successful the archetypal place. He clarified that doing a comic publication movie is "not arsenic different" from his erstwhile enactment connected projects similar Clouds of Sils Maria oregon Home for the Weekend arsenic 1 mightiness think. He adjacent goes connected to praise akin films for having "a superior philosophical ambition," adding that "they transportation large allegorical weight" for him.

"Take conscionable the connection 'super' — it's utilized arsenic a superlative, for thing excellent, wonderful," Eidinger continued. "But 'super' truly lone means 'over' oregon 'above.' So Superman is the Übermensch. You person the Super Ego. There’s already a heavy intelligence magnitude built in."

"Last week I was connected acceptable during rehearsals and asked if I could ticker immoderate of the filming, which had already started. And I saw an histrion successful the Superman costume, suspended connected wires successful beforehand of a bluescreen. I looked astatine that representation and thought: This is the essence of fiction. It’s arsenic important an representation arsenic Hamlet holding the skull: Superman, successful that Superman pose, hanging from wires successful beforehand of a bluescreen.

"Being successful the Superman beingness wasn’t a imagination oregon burning tendency for me. But present that it’s happening, I tin spot a definite inevitability successful it, thing astir fated."

Superman Man of Tomorrow volition proceed Gunn's imaginativeness for a caller DCU erstwhile it brings Corenswet backmost to the large surface July 9, 2027. Filming began successful April, and its formed besides includes Matthew Lillard, Andre Royo, Adria Arjona, and more. While we hold for updates, you tin drawback up connected each of the latest from Supergirl up of its premiere successful June.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).