“I think he’d be better as Lex Luthor,” Vaughn said.
“He’d be an amazing Luthor.
He shouldn’t be Wolverine.
Could Taron Egerton be a worthy successor to Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor? His ‘Kingsman’ director Matthew Vaughn thinks so.Rich Fury/Getty Images; Everett Collection
I don’t think he’s right for it.
Hugh has made it so iconic that whoever’s trying to do Hugh would be buggered.
Taron would make an amazing, intelligent villain with depth.”
This was back beforeMan of Steel, and Warner Bros. ultimately went with Zack Snyder instead.
“It does, eventually.
The dad was right, but he got his timing wrong.
When Superman is grown up, suddenly there’s a mass exodus and all hell breaks loose.
That was our main idea.”
In addition to Luthor, Vaughn’s Superman films would have featured Brainiac and Zod as villains.
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