Jesse Eisenberg will play Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder’s upcoming DC Comics film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” (Photo : Instagram/legobatmanvsupermanmovie)
New "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" details will reveal Lex Luthor's creation of his battle armor and kryptonite, as well as Warner Bros. announcement of PG-13 ratings to all of their DC films.
A new toyline for "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" will feature Lex Luthor's (Jesse Eisenberg) famous battle armor alongside Superman and an armored Batman figures, ComicBook reported. Lex Luthor's battle armor in the comics was first created by Darkseid in Apokalips to battle against the Man of Steel, as the armor is equipped with several anti-Krytonian based weapons and its powered by Krytonite, Superman's main weakness.
Lex's battle armor was first rumored several years ago, but with new toy being leaked throughout the internet, it seems that old rumors have been resurrected and comic book fans will be curious enough to see the movie in order see Lex don the battle armor and fight Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot).
This is not the first time a toy set revealed a potential spoilers about Lex Luthor in "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" as the recent Lego play set revealed that Lex also created Krytonite, hinting that is man-made and reverse-engineered using Krytonian technology from General Zod's forces.
Lex will further use Kryptonian technology in order to create weapons, thus leading to several rumored characters like Doomsday and OMAC as secondary characters in the film.
In other news, Warner Bros. is planning to have all of the films in the DC Extended Universe to have PG-13 ratings instead of Rated R as producer Charles Roven told Collider that they wanted their films to have a bit of lighter side balancing its darker and grittier themes.
However, Roven clarified that this is still not an absolute and an creative endeavor to test new waters for character creation and development, as well as telling a good story based on the DC characters.
Director Zack Snyder stated that a new trailer for "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" will launch during the premiere week of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" next month.
"Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" will be release in cinemas on March 25, 2016.
