Seeing an opportunity with the appearance of the asteroid, Luthor decides to finally end Superman and tells the media that he has evidence the Man of Steel himself is drawing the deadly radioactive rock towards Earth. And so, I had to make this pact with myself, that even if everybody hates it, I knew that I had I had made a ‘gear-change’ for me, because I’d not seen ‘me’ do ‘this’ on stage before. The story has similarities to the 2001 television series Smallville, [22] which follows Clark Kent's life as a teenager and into early adulthood.

Brainiac 13 offers Luthor control of the technology if Luthor turns over Brainiac and hands over his daughter. In these early stories, Luthor's schemes are centered around financial gain or megalomaniacal ambitions; unlike most later incarnations, he demonstrates no strong animosity toward Superman beyond inevitable resentment of the hero's constant interference with his plans. Ultimately it will then come down to something that catches my eye, and something that is to my taste.There were elements of the original show, like the ‘Soho scene’, that I thought were dated – not only in terms of the physical ‘things’, but actually in terms of ideas too. Upon graduating from MIT, Luthor founds his own business, LexCorp, which grows to dominate much of Metropolis. Scrooge pleads with the ghost to show him someone who has emotions for the dead man, and he is shown an impoverished couple who are indebted to the man, momentarily celebrating as they will now have longer to settle the debt. Luthor is one of a few genre-crossing villains whose adventures take place "in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended".

The huge bed, which becomes such a central part of the set design, and which is used for the swans to appear on, above, beneath and from within, is an other design element that feels very central to the production.His hatred of Superman is explained as the citizens of Metropolis have admired the Man of Steel more than him. At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, Luthor sets in motion a calculated plot to discredit Supernova, a new hero defending Metropolis in Superman's absence. For example, we didn’t have film in the original production, we had a bigger stage area originally with four bays rather than three, whole sections of the set used to be blue it’s now grey, the floor was blue and it’s now black. Superman: Birthright, a limited series written by Mark Waid in 2004, offers an alternate look at Luthor's history, including his youth in Smallville, and his first encounter with Superman. It’s a really striking image, and Brotherson has created the look of the character, to pretty much what I imagined when I first read the book.