Saturday, October 25, 2014

Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Wanted For "Suicide Squad" Movie

Warner Bros is reportedly in discussions with Jesse Eisenberg to reprise his role as Lex Luthor in  Fury and "End of Watch" director David Ayer's film version of DC Entertainment's "Suicide Squad" comic book says Deadline.


The comic center on incarcerated villains from the DC universe being recruited as deniable assets by the Government to go on high-risk black ops missions in exchange for more lenient or even commuted sentences. Amanda Waller is in charge of the program.

Eisenberg plays Lex in Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice" and if the character shows up in 'Squad' it would link back to the DC Cinematic Universe which the film doesn't really have on the surface.

There's a problem though, Eisenberg is being lined up to star in the Todd Phillips-directed "Arms And The Dudes" and it's unlikely he'll be able to do both. He's also committed to "Now You See Me 2" as well as the potential casting Zombieland 2 in development and moving forward again.

 Will Smith, Tom Hardy Ryan Gosling and "The Wolf of Wall Street" actress Margot Robbie are all reportedly fielding offers for "Squad".

Dan Lin is producing the pic with Charles Roven from a script by Justin Marks.

The film has a  2016 release date planned.

Several of the characters have showed up on The CW's popular Arrow TV series and that trend will continue.

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