It looks like the advertising campaign for next year’s “Batman v Superman” is underway; today Fortune Magazine published an interview with a supervillain. “Lex Luthor Jr.: Not Just His Father’s LexCorp” is set up as a pop culturey interview with a business mogul. We get some pieces of information, like how he feels about Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises, how he feels about global threats, and hints about what he may have up his sleeve.
Referring to Alexander Luthor Sr. as a “good businessman” is not unlike calling Napoleon Bonaparte a “competent conqueror.” The East German émigré, who passed away unexpectedly in 2000, arrived on our shores with nothing, but managed to carve out an empire of oil and machinery. By all accounts, he accomplished this feat through sheer grit and ferocity. His enemies, of which there are many, would also probably add “viciousness.”
“Well, Dad was a complicated guy,” his down-to-Earth son notes as we pass a tasteful display of his world-famous collection of meteorite crystals. “He came from a country where the government, in the guise of protector, had absolute control over the citizens. That drove him. I get it. Heck, I’d hate to see that sort of thing happen over here.”
I’m skeptical about the movie, but I’m one of few geeks I know who didn’t have a problem with Jesse Eisenberg’s casting. They want to take Luthor in a different direction than Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey. Eisenberg can do cold and calculating. Reading this article with him in mind, you can start to see the serpent coiling. I like that. Read the whole interview on Fortune’s site — it’s a fun one.
Oh yeah. He’s also on Twitter at @alexanderluthor. The evil bastard.
