{"id":2206821,"date":"2025-12-20T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206821"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:33:08","slug":"james-gunn-casts-his-brainiac-lars-eidinger-to-star-in-man-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-gunn-casts-his-brainiac-lars-eidinger-to-star-in-man-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Casts His Brainiac: Lars Eidinger to Star in \u2018Man of Tomorrow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1955257\/\">Lars Eidinger<\/a> has been tapped to star as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4193478\/\">Brainiac<\/a> in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0348181\/\">James Gunn<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8356111\/\">Superman<\/a> follow-up \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37833661\/\">Man of Tomorrow<\/a>,\u201d the filmmaker announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11874338\/\">Gunn<\/a> said on social media: \u201cIn our worldwide search for Brainiac in \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37833661\/\">Man of Tomorrow<\/a>,\u2019 Lars Eidinger rose to the top. Welcome to the Dcu, Lars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Brainiac remains such an integral aspect of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a> canon despite lacking a big-screen adaptation speaks to the lasting popularity of the character. Created by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2406394\/\">Otto Binder<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2530490\/\">Al Plastino<\/a>, the villain first appeared in 1958\u2019s \u201cAction Comics #242\u201d \u2014 making him even older than <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a> mainstays like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2744016\/\">General Zod<\/a> and Kara Zor-El\u2019s Supergirl.<\/p>\n<p>This story introduced the green-skinned alien Brainiac,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lars Eidinger has been tapped to star as Brainiac in James Gunn\u2019s Superman follow-up \u201cMan of Tomorrow,\u201d the filmmaker announced on Saturday. Gunn said on social media: \u201cIn our worldwide search for Brainiac in \u2018Man of Tomorrow,\u2019 Lars Eidinger rose to the top. Welcome to the Dcu, Lars.\u201d The fact that Brainiac remains such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2206821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Gunn-Casts-His-Brainiac-Lars-Eidinger-to-Star-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206823,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206821\/revisions\/2206823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}