SUPERMAN – New Final Trailer (2025) James Gunn, David Corenswet

Apart from Lex Luthor, Superman's cast of characters includes other antagonists such as Maria Gabriela de Faría's the Engineer and the mysterious masked villain that accompanies Lex Luthor, plus a group of four heroic metahumans who seem to clash with Superman. Going by the trailers, David Corenswet's Superman will completely overhaul the definition of superhero in the DCU, which will certainly ruffle a few feathers among metahumans, vigilantes, villains, and regular citizens.

Most of DC's previous live-action Superman movies didn't have the chance to dive into the intricacies of Lex Luthor and Superman's enmity, either because actors didn't reprise their roles or because their respective franchises came to a premature end. James Gunn's Superman seems to kick off a long feud between David Corenswet's Superman and Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor. Given how expansive the DCU aims to be, Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor is bound to return multiple times to attack Superman and possibly other heroes as well.