In Man of Tomorrow, the upcoming sequel to Superman, German actor Lars Eidinger will play Brainiac. An intergalactic collector from the planet Colu, Brainiac’s chilly, laptop mind strips him of all emotion. He merely travels from planet to planet, shrinking cities he finds fascinating and bringing them into his ship, with no regard of the lives he’s ruined.
In actual life, Lars Eidinger looks like an enormous sweetheart. No less than that’s the impression one will get from a brand new interview, by which he discusses his casting within the James Gunn image. “It’s a real miracle that it occurred,” Eidinger mentioned. “I’d enterprise to say that each actor, each actress in Germany, there’s a secret hope that someday to obtain a telephone name from Hollywood. And I at all times thought, I’m 50 now, I assumed okay, that’s it, and it abruptly occurred. And all of it went comparatively rapidly, didn’t it? And me? Sure, I actually can hardly consider it, truthfully.”
On one hand, Eidinger definitely isn’t an enormous identify like a number of of the others that Gunn has solid within the DCU. However he’s not a newcomer both. Simply final 12 months, Eidinger had a transient however memorable function in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, having labored with the director beforehand within the Don DeLillo adaptation White Noise. Furthermore, Eidinger has labored with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, showing in Clouds of Sils Maria and Private Shopper.
Extra importantly, Eidinger isn’t any extra an unknown than the star of Man of Tomorrow, David Corenswet. Though the actor had a reoccurring function in Ryan Murphy‘s The Politician and the HBO sequence We Personal This Metropolis, he was greatest recognized to moviegoers because the ill-fated projectionist in Ti West‘s Pearl. As a comparatively contemporary face, Corenswet was in a position to disappear into the function of Superman, permitting us to see the icon earlier than the actor.
