Superman has a fairly robust rogue’s gallery under his belt. You might not know this if you only watch comic book movies, where the Man of Steel faces alternating rounds betwen Lex Luthor and General Zod, but outside of Batman, Spider-Man, and maybe the X-Men, Kal-El has one of comicdom’s top shelf villain rosters.

So it’s interesting that in his surprise Wednesday announcement about Superman 2 , writer-director James Gunn not only revealed that the movie is now titled Man of Tomorrow and headed on the fast track for a July 9, 2027 release date, but that it seems likely to again star Nicholas Hoult ’s Lex Luthor opposite David Corenswet’s Clark Kent—albeit not as you might have expected to see the bald evil genius.

In the below social post with the title and date, we see a Jim L

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