{"id":2295190,"date":"2026-02-23T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295190"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:35:40","slug":"lars-eidinger-says-his-brainiac-casting-in-man-of-tomorrow-was-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lars-eidinger-says-his-brainiac-casting-in-man-of-tomorrow-was-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lars Eidinger Says His Brainiac Casting in &#8216;Man of Tomorrow&#8217; was a &#8220;Miracle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">After months of speculation about who would be playing the villain in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0348181\/\">James Gunn<\/a>&#8216;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a> follow-up, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt37833661\/\">Man of Tomorrow<\/a>, it was announced that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4193478\/\">Brainiac<\/a> would be that villain, but none of the rumors of who would be playing him were even close. After names such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1741002\/\">Matt Smith<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0051903\/\">Claes Bang<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005377\/\">Sam Rockwell<\/a> were touted, the role was filled by German actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1955257\/\">Lars Eidinger<\/a>, who seems to have been as shocked as anyone by the casting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite acting for over two decades, Eidinger&#8217;s name is not one that is on everyone&#8217;s lips. His Hollywood credits include Disney&#8217;s live-action <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0033563\/\">Dumbo<\/a> in 2019, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6160448\/\">White Noise<\/a> in 2022, and last year&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14714478\/\">Jay Kelly<\/a>, as&#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>After months of speculation about who would be playing the villain in James Gunn&#8216;s Superman follow-up, Man of Tomorrow, it was announced that Brainiac would be that villain, but none of the rumors of who would be playing him were even close. After names such as Matt Smith, Claes Bang, and Sam Rockwell were touted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295191,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2295190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/2026\/02\/Lars-Eidinger-Says-His-Brainiac-Casting-in-Man-of-Tomorrow.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295190","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=2295190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295192,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295190\/revisions\/2295192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}