Maybe: BRYAN CRANSTON to play LEX LUTHOR in a BUTTLOAD OF MOVIES

This rumor started a couple of weeks ago, and hasn’t let up since. Still though, I’m not ready to stamp it confirmed. Not when the beginning of the echo chamber is Cosmic Book News’ movie website. No offense to those peeps. Probably great souls. The rumor? The Danger himself is going to be playing Luthor. For a lot of movies.

This rumor hasn’t hit critical mass quite yet, but it’s definitely getting there, as dozens of major outlets are treating it as a done deal that Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will play Lex Luthor. It appears all these reports are sourced back to an original story from Cosmic Book News; so far, there doesn’t appear to be any further corroboration of the rumor, though that could change shortly.

Anyway, the additional details of the story indicate that Cranston could sign on to play Luthor in anywhere between six and a whopping ten films, and that’s actually only the third craziest detail of the report – the gold and silver medals go to the suggestions that Ben Affleck is signing on to play Batman in as many as 13 movies and that Matt Damon is now in contention to play either Aquaman or the Martian Manhunter. We’ll leave it to you to judge the plausibility of any of this, though it should probably be pointed out that not all of these appearances would be major turns; the apparent idea is to go even further with Marvel Studios’ notion of having major characters appear in cameos in other franchises. [Cosmic Book Movies]

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