Brainiac Cast: Lars Eidinger to Play Superman Villain in Man of Tomorrow

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Director and DC-boss James Gunn announced connected societal media Saturday that helium has formed German histrion Lars Eidinger arsenic the villainous Brainiac successful his Superman follow-up movie Man of Tomorrow.

“In our worldwide hunt for Brainiac successful Man of Tomorrow, Lars Eidinger roseate to the top,” Gunn wrote connected his Instagram account. “Welcome to the DCU, Lars.”

Eidinger, 49, whitethorn beryllium comparatively chartless to North American audiences, but helium tin presently beryllium seen successful the George Clooney-Adam Sandler movie Jay Kelly, which is streaming connected Netflix.

His different movie and TV credits see Babylon Berlin, All the Light We Cannot See, High Life, Tim Burton’s Dumbo, My Little Sister, Dying, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, White Noise, and Irma Vep. Eidinger is besides a rapper, musician, and DJ.

Even though helium hovers adjacent the apical of Superman’s rogues gallery, Man of Tomorrow marks the archetypal clip Brainiac volition beryllium depicted successful live-action connected the large screen. Man of Tomorrow volition spot Superman (David Corenswet) and his archenemy Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) person to state to support Earth from Brainiac.

Created by writer Otto Binder and creator Al Plastino, Brainiac made his debut successful 1958’s Action Comics #242. He is simply a genius alien android who was primitively a idiosyncratic from the satellite Colu named Vril Dox.

“But now, helium exists arsenic a cyborg with a bid of super-strong bodies to gully upon. Already fiendishly intelligent, Brainiac has made it his extremity to cod each cognition that exists successful the universe,” arsenic IGN’s Jesse Schedeen explains successful his portion Why Brainiac Makes Perfect Sense arsenic Man of Tomorrow's Main Villain.

“Brainiac’s fiendish modus operandi consists of travelling to antithetic worlds and capturing cities arsenic his idiosyncratic souvenirs. He shrinks them down and bottles them up for his collection, and past destroys what remains of the conquered civilization. One of Brainiac’s top prizes is Kandor, a relic of the Krypton that was. In immoderate versions of the Superman mythos, it’s really Brainiac who causes the demolition of Krypton aft stealing Kandor.”