{"id":67557,"date":"2014-10-25T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=67557"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T09:36:41","slug":"suicide-squad-movie-confirms-batman-v-superman-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/suicide-squad-movie-confirms-batman-v-superman-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Squad movie confirms Batman V Superman foe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deadshot, traditional centrepiece of the Suicide Squad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Deadline<\/em><\/a>, Warner Bros’ most eagerly anticipated DC movie (for us at least, as it’s being directed\u00a0by\u00a0Fury<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0End Of Watch<\/strong><\/em>‘s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>David Ayer), Suicide Squad<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, has approached Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice<\/em><\/strong><\/a> star Jesse Eisenberg to star.<\/p>\n

Eisenberg is playing Superman antagonist Lex Luthor, two parts corporate raider and two parts mad scientist, so either he’s the overarching Thanos-style nemesis for DC’s big screen heroes (even antiheroes like the supervillains-turned-government stooges of the Suicide Squad<\/em>) or they could be taking a few pointers from Gail Simone’s much-loved Secret Six<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the original miniseries, Luthor assembles the Secret Six<\/strong><\/em> – a team of unaligned supervillains – to fight back against the Secret Society of Super Villains, formed by Alexander Luthor Jr posing as Lex (it’s complicated).<\/p>\n

Or maybe not. It’s more likely he’ll just be popping up over the next few movies in a glorified cameo.<\/p>\n

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 6 May 2016.\u00a0For more on the comics that have inspired the movie, pick up\u00a0our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice will crossover with David Ayer’s Suicide Squad movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":67558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3825,4035],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Suicide-Squad-movie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}