{"id":96980,"date":"2025-10-01T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/96980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:44:11","slug":"guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-star-chukwudi-iwuji-makes-a-case-for-playing-man-of-tomorrows-brainiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/96980\/","title":{"rendered":"GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Star Chukwudi Iwuji Makes A Case For Playing MAN OF TOMORROW’s Brainiac"},"content":{"rendered":"

While not confirmed, Brainiac is expected to be the main villain in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow. Many actors would be a good fit for the role, and\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Peacemaker star\u00a0Chukwudi Iwuji has now thrown his name into the hat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actor played\u00a0Clemson Murn in Peacemaker, though we’d later learn that he was really a\u00a0Butterfly named Ik Nobe Lok.\u00a0Iwuji later reunited with Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where he transformed into the twisted creator of Rocket Raccoon, The High Evolutionary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking to\u00a0The Movie Dweeb<\/a>,\u00a0Iwuji shared his enthusiasm to potentially\u00a0play one of the DC Universe’s greatest threats. “Could I see myself doing it? If James picked up the phone and called me, absolutely. Is it a cool role? You’re like the 12th person that’s mentioned it. So, I obviously went online and looked and went, ‘Oh, wow. This guy is cool.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“So, could I see myself if I had the opportunity? I’d jump at it. The ‘no’\u00a0I said is just to let everyone know James hasn’t…\u00a0This isn’t me lying to you. I’m so sorry I lied to you but I had to. I was under contract,”<\/strong> he continued. “They’d have arrested me, deported me.\u00a0But this is not lying to you at all. There’s absolutely no links whatsoever to Brainiac. And I’m not lying. Okay?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Superman received positive reviews, but many fans were disappointed when Gunn decided to focus on Lex Luthor (a villain we’ve seen on screen several times before) and obscure threats like Ultraman and The Engineer, neither of whom had that much in common with their comic book counterparts.<\/p>\n

Brainiac would be a fitting choice of villain for the next chapter in the “Superman Saga,” particularly as Gunn needs to find a threat big enough for it to make sense that Superman and Lex would put their differences aside to try and save their city from a common foe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would\u00a0Iwuji be a good fit for the character? The role might be a little too similar to what we saw from him in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but there’s no denying that he has all the right attributes to do Brainiac justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gunn was recently asked about the intriguing piece of imagery<\/a><\/strong> on Man of Tomorrow’s script. “Listen, of course I wasn’t unaware that when I posted the cover of the script that there was going to be discussion around that particular topic. But I think we’ll hold off from what exactly is happening.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man of Tomorrow\u00a0arrives in theaters on\u00a0July 9, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While not confirmed, Brainiac is expected to be the main villain in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[62189,18,117,19,17,33388],"class_list":{"0":"post-96980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chukwudi-iwuji","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-man-of-tomorrow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}