Leo gave advice to Timothee Chalamet one time. "Don't do drugs or superhero movies". Now we know why he said that 😂

Tom passed on Iron Man and Ozymandias. Somebody needs to pull Tom aside.

Leo dodged a bullet.

Lolololololololol nearly should be in quotation marks

I see how Tom Cruise would have been an interesting choice for Ozymandias. He is a good guy who is loved and admired by the world and represents the public’s ideal of what a superhero should be and Cruise is the movie star equivalent to that. I love it when Cruise plays a villain and he would be able to make the character ambiguous and have the audience sympathize with him and his diabolical plan. Cruise as Rorschach however? Not so sure about that one.

After seeing Social Network I was excited to see Eisenberg play Lex Luther…and he didn’t disappoint 👍

That would have been amazing. I can totally see that. Just imagine how he played Calvin Candie in Django and apply it to Lex Luthor.

From DiCaprio to Eisenberg.... Not saying he's a bad actor but his take on Lex was horrible

Leo is always almost playing someone in superhero movies lol. Spider-Man, Riddler and now Lex.

Leo wouldve elevated the film. Anyone but jesse tbh. He was just too over the top.

Imagining tom cruise as rorschach.

Eisenberg is my favorite Lex but Leo would’ve bodied that role

Loved Jessie Eisenberg as Lex

Eisenberg is a joke. Terrible choice for that role.

I liked Jesse as Alex Luthor Jr. But Di Caprio may have been cool as a Batman villain, I think, had Ben Affleck’s Batman movie been made. Do believe that the SnyderVerse could have remained as an Elseworld.

Glad he didn't. It would have been a near-career-ending move.

"He was really smart about the material" ... at least someone in the room was

Zack is a nice guy, but the fact that Leo was the first place he heard of the idea of Superman fighting the Justice League is really telling. It’s not a new idea at all, it proves Zack knew very very little about the material and it shows in his DC movies. I know he has his fans and that’s fine, but I know I’m in the majority when I say his DC movies range from okay to disappointing.

I am going to take out the names of the characters when I am explaining myself and replace the names with "protagonist" and "antagonist" to highlight a point. Here is my perspective. I am not going to pretend like Jesse was a conventional choice for the antagonist but I liked how a smart, wealthy, quirky, neurotic, and meticulous antagonist interacted with Henry Cavill's character. I liked the articulate and eloquent diatribes that Jesse went on. It went along well with the music and visuals that were in the movie. Could you have named Jesse's character something else? Sure. Does it really change the way the story played out whether his name was one thing or the another? No. This is the way I look at it. The entire story was going to be 5 movies long. Let's say Jesse's character was named something else so the criticism that his character was "illegitimate" or "In Name Only" was put to rest. It wasn't like there was going to be a situation where Jesse's character was going to prohibit another antagonist of the same name to be put to screen. It was never going to be a multiverse. Henry's character needed a foil and in the script Jesse's character served that purpose. From my experience with the antagonist's character he is a foil to the protagonist with intelligence, resources and who is ideologically opposed to the very Idea of the protagonists existence. Another benefit of Jesse's character is his physically more scrawny and unimposing appearance which highlights his inferiority complex to Henry's protagonist which is another key element of the character Jesse was playing and fits my understand of the character. In my perspective that is at the heart of the antagonists character. Another thing. Could we have gotten the bald headed, broad shouldered, deep voiced archetype that we typically associate with the antagonist? Sure. Would it have work? I am sure the story and vision for the movie could have been modified to facilitate that portrayal but then the story also becomes different. Anyway, I really enjoy this interviews. It is great to fascinating how much though really went into these decisions.

Leo would have been a better Luthor

Jessie as Lex is for me the best live action version.

No he didn't

Jesse Eisenberg was perfect as modern day Lex Luthor. I don't know if the highly overrated DiCaprio would've pulled that.

How can this guy having made a great Watchmen, be the same who made trash Rebel Moon?

I love it when Snyder just says outright lies. Leo was never gonna be in one of his shitty movies lmao