Why would a corporate billionaire care about a rookie newspaper

By this point of the movie, Lex definitely seems to know who they both are.
Clark almost definitely knows who Bruce is,
and Bruce seems to know that Clark is Superman

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>YEAAAARGH! YOW! HOLY MACARONI! YOU DO NOT WANNA PICK A BATMAN VS SUPERMAN DAWN OF JUSTICE IN IMAX 3D WITH THIS GUY! YEEHOO HOO HOO! WOWZERS!

>>77939844

Because the movie is looking like shit, just like Man of Murder.

>>77940974

Look at that bald guy behinds the blonde lady next to Bruce. You see him? That nobody in the background?

He would make a far more convincing Lex Luthor.

Because he's obsessed with Superman, so he probably reads all of Clark's articles about him which is why Clark was invited in the first place. How fucking dumb are you people?

>>77939844
>Clark Kent writes some shit about Lexcorp
>Lex takes notice
>This Lex is quirky and shit and that's the way quirky people talk, I guess

I don't think that was a big deal, what I found really dumb is that Clark Kent doesn't know who Bruce Wayne is. He has lived his entire life on earth, did they forget?

>>77941020
But he's black. /co/ would pitch a fit.

>>77941020
Why because he's bald? If that's really all you care about then you'll be happy to know Lex loses his hair in the movie.

>>77941043

Everyone used to think DCAU Luthor was black.

>>77939844

James_May_explains_how_to_streamline_the_Hammer_I_Eagle_Thrust.jpg

>>77941033
Business probably isnt one of Clark's interest. I cant name a single Raven's player even though its a big interest of my dad. I just dont care enough to listen/remember.

>>77939844

Why don't you wait and watch the movie moron?

>>77941097

>Stop it!
>Stop having fun!

>>77941033
Could also be that Clark might be the one writing the Superman puff pieces for the Planet, and with Lex being obsessed with the guy he took notice of who writes them.

>>77941020

nice meme!

>>77941080
He's a reporter on the Daily Planet... he HAS to know who the big names are. He doesn't have to know what their favorite Subway sandwich is, but he has to know their faces.

Are you a reporter? If not, why are you bringing your dad's team up?

>>77939844
He may have done an interview with Lex at some point and Luthor clearly made out who he was and figured to pull a b.s. friendship to keep tabs on him.

>>77941020
Oh shit he legit looks like him, If I was the director and I saw that dude irl he would almost immediately have the role

>>77940949
Why is Batman so afraid of Superman? I think it wouldn't bother him that much.

>>77941119
He probably knows about Wayne Enterprises and that Bruce Wayne must exist, but hasn't bothered looking into him because he's seemingly irrelevant.

>>77941150
>guy is an extra
>probably not a very talented actor
>lets hire him for a major role in our tentpole blockbuster film anyway

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>>77941108
>having fun rolling in the shitty samey criticisms of half joking dickfaces and blatantly stupid shitposters
>this is fun for someone

>>77941033
Also I just realized
>Clark has no idea who the fuck Wayne is
>hurr durr let's go question this guy I know fuck all, somehow his opinion must be very important!

>>77941181
Yep, precisely what I'm just realizing. Let's go ask this guy who I'm just realizing exists about Batman, why the fuck no?

>>77941119
If its not his area of expertise i dont think he can be blamed for not paying attention.
You cant expect a sports editor/writer to suddenly ve able to write about the ups and downs of the stock market perfectly.
Its probably his first time being on celeb/gossip duty.

If Clark's been writing lots of articles about Superman, and Lex is as obsessed with him as he should be, it's entirely possible he knows about Clark by name.

>>77941178
He's angry Superman saved the world but allowed collateral damage to happen, and is worried that a superpowered individual who has killed is going to immediately become an evil fascist dictator.

Basically, Bruce is a massive MoS shitposter.

>>77941183
the only person worse for this role than jesse eisenberg would be michael cera

>>77941201
>You cant expect a sports editor/writer to suddenly ve able to write about the ups and downs of the stock market perfectly.

I expect them to know who fucking Steve Jobs and Bill gates are, not how their stock is doing.

Fucking hell why am I arguing with a tripfag. Filtered.

>>77941119
He just became a reporter and they said at the beginning of this movie Bruce is a loner, not the playboy he once was. Not to mention Clark spent the majority of his adulthood traveling the world, not worrying about what rich people were doing with their lives.

>>77941200
Once their eyes meet, Clark probably immediately knows Bruce is Batman, which is why he asks the question. Bruce probably also figures out Clark is Superman the moment he opens his mouth. Lex probably knew about the both of them long before this scene.

>>77941241
>Fucking hell why am I arguing with a tripfag. Filtered.
Go to bed Slott.

>>77939844
What a shit lex, what a let down.

>>77941254
>Once their eyes meet, Clark probably immediately knows Bruce is Batman, which is why he asks the question. Bruce probably also figures out Clark is Superman the moment he opens his mouth.

Eh, I don't know, I'm not discarding that but I didn't get that impression from that quick exchange. It's like there's a tension but it doesn't strike me as exactly that. It could be but I think this Bruce is just a lot more direct and less playboy than other versions.

>>77941260
but slott likes the trailer

>>77941241
Bruce isnt Bill Gates ir Steve Jobs. Isnt it always assumed that Wayne Interprise does private bussiness practices anyway. I never seen it be indicated that its a Apple/Mircosoft kinda thing.

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>I guess we're just used to seeing freaks dressed like clowns

Has anyone ever been served so badly in a cape movie before? That was ice cold.

I don't even like Luthor and I hope he kills it.
I guess I just like to see /co/ get shitted on and then still stick to their guns even after proved wrong.

I thought Bruce was more of a local celeberity?

Everybody knows that Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne are Superman and Batman. They're just pretending not to.

Also, it's all just a dream.

>>77941080
You know who Bill Gates is, right?

>>77941235
Jesse and cera are practically the same person so in turn we already have the worst person for the role.

>>77941337

>Maybe it's the Gotham in me, but we tend to have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.

At least get the burn right, anon.

>>77941370
cera is legit funny though

>>77941378
Eisenberg is a legit good actor though.

>>77941362
He basically works in entertainment though. Everyone knows entertainment. How many CEO's of weapon companies could you name?

>>77941362
My answer >>77941334.

>>77941362
I don't know who anyone else on the Fortune 100 list is.

>>77941390
and so we have come to realize they are not really that much alike and anyone who claims they are has no depth to their thought processes

it was a happy day and /co/ was better off from then on

>>77941375
I thought he said Gotham and me

>>77941390
he's good at acting/looking like a douchy teen and that's about it

>>77941420
>teen

Not anymore dude, he can't pull the teen look anymore. He always looked 18+ to me.

>>77941233
>Basically, Bruce is a massive MoS shitposter.
I'm glad someone said it.

>>77939844
WATCH THE MOVIE TO FIND OUT!

>>77941178
If he knows who Clark is and possibly suspects Clark knows who he is and doesn't think of Superman positively yet...

>>77941420
Yeah, so what?

You think Nicolas Cage could pull off a period drama?

>>77941610
lord of war, if the 80s count as period

>>77941610

Yeah man, check out Season of the Witch, he was amazing in it.

>>77941637
Now don't you go trying to trick me.

>>77941637
I actually should have specified 19th century period drama, but I wouldn't exactly say he was 'amazing' in Season of the Witch, Ron Perlman was better.

>>77940974

My favorite part is when he says

>BOIS.. MMM

Sounds sexual

>>77941390
The trailer alone proves he is not
he really is so wrong for that role

>>77941705
1. Disliking an actor in a specific role doesn't mean they are a bad actor.
2. This isn't the Luthor we're used to but I think it works, for what it is.

>>77941705
>>77941731

BOIS.. MM. Anon meets anon! AH! I love it! I love bringing people together. How are we?

O hey OW! >>77941731 That is a good grip.

You should not pick a fight with this person!

>>77941705
You wouldn't know good acting if Marlon Brando rose from the dead and ripped your dick off.

>>77941762
Thank you.

>>77941768
I actually a spit when I laughed reading that. Well done sir. Well done.

>>77941762
Oh hey /tv/.

>Defending Jewsse Eisenberg

Whathappens to this board, shitty lex luthor btw

>>77939844

One is a writer for a prominent news organization, who's writing sways the opinion of everyone in his city, and the other is a billionaire investor that rivals his own wealth?

Gee, WHO THE FUCK KNOWS?!

>Not to mention he's a goddamn genius and probably knows EVERYONE at the party even if they're important or not.

>>77941823

I've never even been on /tv/ before. I just like using that quote.

>>77941705
Looks like it's hurting his credibility. kek

>>77941856
That's a little too similar to the lick smacking Suicide Squad meme that they made up. I don't believe you.

>>77941869

What Suicide Squad meme?

>>77939844

Wait. Guys, wait...

What if...
>They had cast Bryan Cranston as Lex Luthor?

>>77941909
But where do we get le comic relief?

>>77941909

Goddamn, I'm now hearing every Lex line from the trailer in my head as Walter White, and they work infinitely better.

>>77941942

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQkun8oj-I

Batman. He's good at everything.

Wonder Woman can make some snide remarks about, "Boys slowing me down," too, just to get the feminists swinging from the ceiling like apes.

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>>77941961

>That's a three syllable word for a idea too big for little minds.

>>77939844
>Why would a corporate billionaire care about a rookie newspaper journalist

Rookie?

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>>77941880
http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/text/hol%20up%20you%20sayin/

>>77941997
it depends how much time has passed
if superman is still pretty new to the world and clark was just hired at the end of mos it is not unfeasible for him to be considered a rookie

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>>77940974
>Stealing my shtick, eh? Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... but it does nothing to counter the perception that you're nothing but a pig in a cheap wig.

>>77942011

Jesus that got out of hand. I can maybe see the similarity, but I just like using the Lex quote.

>>77942064
question: do you truly like the line or do you use it to mock it

or something in between

>>77939844

>The real movie twist is it's not really Lex Luthor!
Why not? They did it with The Mandarin? LOL (Lex Over Luthor)

>>77942084

I honestly just like the line. I just like the way he says boois! And then from there, I gotta go with all of it or else it just doesn't make sense.

>>77939844
I'm assuming that Clark has written a whole bunch of stories about Superman. Since Lex has an interest in Superman he's probably read those stories and knows his name and face because of that.

>>77939844
>obsessed with superman
>one person writes all the pieces on him
>read all those articles by that person

Gee OP I wonder why?

>>77942122
oh good, so do i

it was the moment when i accepted lex luthorberg

I don't read Superman because he's trash but is Lex always a fruity little fairy like that?

>>77942138

It's a fun line. Plus I can use it when going out with my friends. Though it pisses them off to no end at this point.

>>77942138
Yeah I hated it at first but he's starting to grow on me.

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>>77942147
No.

>>77939844
Perhaps if you watch the movie you'll find out.

>>77942164
you ran a joke into the ground in a day and a half?

>>77942183
why is he wearing armor to browse the internet in his basement
why doesn't he do it in his underwear like a normal person

>>77942147
He's calculating and cold usually.

>>77942198

How many times do you think I can get away with saying BOIS before someone gets tired of it?

>>77942184
Feels like we already did though.

>Clark thinks Batman's irresponsible and needs to be stopped
>Bruce thinks the same
>Luthor sics Batman on Superman
>plan fails
>Luthor then uses Zod to create Doomsday
>suddenly Trinity
>Luthor disgraced and in jail but stlll plotting
>the end

>>77942208
also something something aquaman

>>77942208
I could tell you the plot beats to Star Wars too and all I know of the movie is from 3 trailers, it's way fucking obvious. Do you not care at all about actually seeing the character interaction and how things play out? There's still a ton of shit unanswered.

>>77942147
All his lines are Spot on Lex. He's not flamboyant though.

>>77939844
>Why would a corporate billionaire care about a rookie newspaper journalist, let alone know him by name and engage him in extended conversation like they're on the same level?
Maybe cause they knew each other back in Smallville?

>>77942208
So since you've seen the whole movie you can obviously compare those plot notes to it, right?

I THOUGHT SHE WAS WITH YOU!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

>>77942201

That armor is probably more comfortable than being naked. I bet it's giving him a blowjob in that very moment

>>77942201
The internet is a dangerous place filled with microaggressions and hateful comments. He need to protect himself.

>>77941062

only idiots thought he was black.
colorists don't know how to light-skin/dark-skin differentiate when it comes to blacks.

>>77941062
Didn't Superman have the same skin tone?

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>>77942330
>>77942371
looks pretty dark to me

>>77942283
BUT THEN WHO WAS FLASH WITH?

>>77942489
everyone at the same time
because speed force

I thought maybe the "Son of Lex Luthor" thing could work.

But no.

No.

It's just fucking awful.

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>maybe it's Gotham and me, we have a bad history with clowns
>is litterally just revealed he is batman
/co/ isn't flipping out

>>77942540
Maybe it's the Gotham in me

>>77942540
>Maybe it's the Gotham in me, but we have a bad history with dead parents
BRAVO SNYDER

>>77942540

>/co/ isn't flipping out over one more piece of shit writing in a trailer full of shit writing

>>77942540
Because it's a shitty line.

LEX WHAT HAVE YOU DONE MY HAIR

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>>77941033
He knows who Bruce Wayne is, he simply doesn't know his face. In fact the guy that answer to him doesn't go on as explaining that he's a billionaire owner of wayne enterprise etch. He just say "he's Bruce Wayne".

It's like Jack Kirby. In my experience while almost everyone that read comics know who he was if you puts pics related in front of them they'll all ask who he is. Because while they know the person they don't know his appaerance.

>>77942240
flash and cyborg are in movie too though

>>77942267
Star Wars script got leaked and posted already. It proved the pastebin leaks were true. So we already know the entire movie plot.

>>77942733
1. who dies
2. does oscar isaac's character have a large role

>>77941235
Eisenberg can do disconcerting. Have you seen The Double?

>>77942790
i keep wanting to bring up the double in threads like this but how much of the unsettling feeling was due to direction/atmosphere versus his performance? the double strikes me as very much a director's film

don't get me wrong i love the movie and look forward to seeing his take on luthor

>>77942733
I haven't read anything, I've only seen the trailers, but it's so plainly obvious how the movie's going to go.

>>77942804
I don't know, man. Making everything brown and setting everything in a dim, cramped office or a dark train can only do so much.

>>77942267
>>77942281
They shouldn't have spoiled so much of the plot is my point.

Of course I'm going to watch and of course a mere synopsis isn't going to sate my curiosity.

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>>77939844
>Clark Kent has written about Lex Corp, like a really negative article and Lex takes notice
Or
>Clark Kent writes a lot about Superman and Lex takes notice
Pick whichever one you think is more likely.

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>>77942540
I'm more hype for based Leto.

>>77939844
Clark writes about Superman, Lex reads everything about Superman. Not a hard line to connect.

>>77939844
Everyone knows Luthor is a faggot. He just happened to set his eye on some poor small-time reporter

>>77939844
He already knew who they really were

Occam's Razor

>>77939844
I hope Lex enters a room dancing to music, like say Ice Ice Baby

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>>77941233
Underrated post

>>77944217
Like Iron Manlet?

>>77939844
>2015 doubting Jesse Eisenberg.
I love every single one of his character.

I'm going to be completely honest with you guys. I hated this Lex.

BUT it's fine for his first introduction in the DCCU. So as long as Lex shows up in future DCCU movies, with a much darker, brooding personality, then this current Lex will actually have been decent.

So, we all know Lex and Joker are the same person right?

>>77941020
It's Ra's all over again!

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>>77944237
The first look they revealed of him was spot on, but I hate how he's portrayed in the teaser.

>>77939844
The actor and the portrayal of Alex is just so repugnant, what were they thinking?

>>77942387
With that nose, I always figured they were going more for Mediterranean. It's like you motherfuckers have never seen a Roman, before.

>>77944374
That's not making it any better tbbh.

We have manchild situation.

>>77944385
Jew privilege, what can we do?

>>77939844
It's the Darth Vader problem in episode 3.

He is important to us as the viewer but to everyone in the movie he shouldn't be

>>77939844

We have to assume that Lex is on friendly terms with Clark, having been interviewed by him many times. Like in the comics. "Friendly terms" in the sense that he respects what Clark does, which is probably writing critical articles about him without fear of retribution. But of course he also thinks Clark's a buffoon, like everybody but himself.

>>77944374
Clark Kent leaves him and he invents kryptonite.

>>77944237
Solid point. We're going to look back on it like it was the perfect introduction.

(Not trying to trigger a Marvel-bashing, but) it'll be the opposite of the one-and-done style of MCU villains. He can actually have an arc over a series of films. Unlike Marvel's main continuing villain, Loki, who has never really changed over the films, we can see Lex go from dweeby LexOS inventor wanting power to brooding, menacing man intoxicated by the power he achieved.

>>77942733
Can we get a pastebin or script leak link??

>>77939844

Clark is writing critical articles about Lex.
Clark is NOT writing critical articles about Bruce.
Lex mentions this "media bias" to Clark earlier.
Lex catches Clark talking to Bruce.
>Dialogue makes perfect sense for Lex being a total prick

>>77944519
>Solid point. We're going to look back on it like it was the perfect introduction.

Say that in a mirror and tell me that other person isn't pulling bullshit out of his ass.

>>77944443

Nevermind me. Just watched the trailer again and saw that he doesn't know Clark.

Still, we have to assume Lex knows everybody because he's an evil autist.

>>77941233
this

>>77942011
i think the most annoying thing about that is they use finna to mean 'kind of', when it means 'going to'

>>77944627
Why wouldn't Lex make it a point to know who exactly is at his function? At the very least names and a brief rundown of what they've been doing recently.

>>77939844
It would be nice if they went the route of Lex and Clark being pals, but I doubt that's what they're doing.

because this is shit bait even if you didn't mean it to be. Your are basically asking why anyone who considers themselve hyper-intelligent would talk to a normal person which is an autistic thing to ask desu baka. why does NASA offer money for solutions to terraforming mars? why does getting an abstract view from outside your discipline matter? because people are narrow minded and if you are really intelligent you would realize that abstract/confrontational views can offer different and unique insights to a problem. Observing other opinions is a main part of critical thinking.10/10 bait made me reply

Also not all super mart fedora tippers are arrogant. some like to engage in conversation even if it humbles them.autists aye/

>>77942540
Because that's not the right line, it's
>Maybe it's the Gotham in me, but we tend to have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns

>>77942540
Anyone from Gotham could say that. Also you quoted wrong

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>>77942387
YEAH HE SURE LOOKS LIKE OTHER BLACK DUDES DO IN THE SAME FUCKING SERIES!

I swear niggas was high when they saw this show...

>>77939844
>Why would a corporate billionaire care about a rookie newspaper journalist, let alone know him by name and engage him in extended conversation like they're on the same level?

Because he writes a bunch of fluff pieces on the alien he hates.

>>77942540
Literally no one in this thread quoted the line right. It also doesn't reveal anything specifically about batman identity

>Maybes its that Gotham city and me, just have a bad history with freaks dressed up as clowns

If anything it just means that the Joker had a a presence in Gotham city when he terrorized it all those times

>>77940974
Isn't he alexander luthor jr.?

>>77947409
Black people aren't all midnight, nigga.

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>>77944385
He was literally modeled after Telly Savalas, so you are right.

>>77943828

It's his fucking cellphone.

>>77944386
>We have manchild situation.
That's what he is.

>>77944519
>we
nigger please

>>77948447
My God, it's Lex Luthor!

Lex is obsessed with Superman. Clark is the reporter who writes about Superman. Thats why Clark was invited to the party. Simple as that.

Are you all dumb?

>>77939844
Because he happens to writ multiple pieces on an alien he is obsessed with taking down and possibly has his suspicions that Clark is in fact Superman.
/thread.

>>77941233
I swear to god, if he or Lex say the words "man of murder" I will take a massive shit myself in the theatre showers

>>77953301

>A Man of Steel©®™? More like a Man of Murder!

This is actually in the script. My dad is Geoff Johns.

>>77953301
I don't think they'll go that far, but I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to say the words "not my Superman."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqdG04sj8sE

>>77943828
What a blocky dick.

Was this trailer the blunder of the century?

>>77942387
>>77942371
It was the lips. Outside of the women, I can't think of many white characters that had such full lips in the DCAU.

>>77942540
Nice bait

>>77940949
>Bruce seems to know that Clark is Superman

I've yet to see a rational basis for thinking this.

>>77954207

I don't think anything will beat the first Green Lantern trailer for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axLoYlwwmU

>>77954448

>World's Greatest Detective

>>77953301
>theatre showers
wat

>>77948083
>and me
HOly shit. Are you baiting or just retarded. It's a completely normal thing to say "the X in me". Obviously he says "Maybe it's the Gotham City in me"

>>77954561
/tv/ meme, just let it be.

>>77941830
Oh you've seen the movie? Please tell me about his shittiest scene!

I don't like this hateboner bruce has for superman just because "muh aliens!! can't trust them!" I get the fact that he feels vulnerable but it would be tons better if it was lex with the raging hateboner for aliens and shit. I mean given the fact he wears that battle suit a lot of times in the comics.
It also doesn't make sense why he hates batman too and wants them to kill eachother.

>>77941961
>Bryan Cranston doing the whole "BOYS!" line.
Yes. He'd be Hal for the public and Walter on his own.

>>77954873
>it would be tons better if it was lex with the raging hateboner for aliens and shit
You seriously think he isn't going to have a raging hateboner for Superman in this movie? He fucking manipulates Batman into trying to kill Superman, then reanimates a dead alien to try to kill him again.

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>>77939844
MM BOIS