James Gunn’s Superman has kickstarted the new DC movie universe in earnest, and now its follow-up, Man of Tomorrow , is ready to bring in the big guns: a new report suggests that Superman and Lex Luthor will team up in the 2027 movie to battle one of DC Comics’ most famous superfoes.

The Wrap reports that Brainiac will be the major threat that forces Lex Luthor (who, after his imprisonment in Superman ‘s climax, finds himself in much more gracious confinement when he teams up with Rick Flag, Sr.) and Superman to put aside their animosities in the new movie. Introduced in the comics during the Silver Age in 1958’s Action Comics #242, Brainiac is a Coluan, a hyperintelligent, green-skinned alien race capable of living for centuries, who was first introduced as a curious collec

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