{"id":243757,"date":"2025-12-21T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/243757\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:21:10","slug":"man-of-tomorrow-casts-lars-eidinger-as-brainiac-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/243757\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Man of Tomorrow\u2019 Casts Lars Eidinger as Brainiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/71aed5913c506cb1d839b4f8080ee89038-lars-eidinger.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"\u201cDas Licht\u201d Photocall - 75th Berlinale International Film Festival\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmjextbi0000i0ih5wxdjuwm2@published\" data-word-count=\"158\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/superman-is-a-pretty-good-journalism-movie.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a> and Lex Luthor have met their match. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/superman-sequel-james-gunn-details.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/review-james-gunns-superman-cant-help-but-be-political.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a> sequel, is adding a new villain to Peter Safran and James Gunn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/james-gunn-dcu-10-year-plan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DCU<\/a>, one that\u2019s never been in a live-action movie before. Lars Eidinger will be playing Brainiac, a genius android from the planet Colu, who\u2019s obsessed with being the only being to obtain all the knowledge in the universe. \u201cIn our worldwide search for Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, Lars Eidinger rose to the top. Welcome to the DCU, Lars,\u201d Gunn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSffVWjgIBb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on Instagram on December 20. Gunn teased that for the upcoming sequel, Luthor and Superman have to work together to defeat an even greater evil. And what\u2019s more evil than someone trying to control all of the knowledge in the universe for themselves? Don\u2019t get too excited to see what Brainiac does just yet; Man of Tomorrow isn\u2019t out \u2018til July 9, 2027. He\u2019s keeping that for himself until then. Classic Brainiac!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSffVWjgIBb\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images Superman and Lex Luthor have met their match. 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