With “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” hitting Netflix tomorrow, Zack Snyder is making the press rounds to promote his latest film. But the most intriguing stuff he talked about on the Happy Sad Confused podcast didn’t have anything to do with “Rebel Moon” at all. Instead, Snyder talked about some of the actors he met with as he was casting Lex Luthor for “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” including comic book guy Leonardo DiCaprio.
“I think I did talk to Adam Driver on the phone, yep,” Snyder confirmed. “Leonardo DiCaprio I talked to about it.” Driver wasn’t an in-person meeting for Snyder, but DiCaprio was, and the actor was intrigued by Luthor role. “Yeah, I think so,” Snyder continued about DiCaprio’s interest, “I think DiCaprio—he had a lot of great ideas actually just in the meeting, I think in the end he was kinda like, ‘Eh, I dunno,’ but he was really smart about the material and really smart about the character he had a lot of… [good ideas].”
And one of those ideas was so great Snyder used it later on in “Justice League.“ “I think he was the one that mentioned to me this idea about Superman fighting the Justice League at some point, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool,'” Snyder went on. It sounds like DiCaprio is quite the comics fan, something some people may find surprising. “Yeah, he is [a comic book guy], so it was cool,” Snyder continued, “and I was like, ‘I’m gonna put that [idea] over there, that’s gonna happen.’”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Snyder said, as he’s done in the past, if he were ever going to make another DC Film he would want to make a super faithful version of Frank Miller‘s “The Dark Knight Returns.” But Snyder waved it off as an impossibility given that his DC days and time with Warner Bros. seems long in the past. Snyder is a Netflix guy now, and he sounds content with churning out big-budget extravaganzas like “Rebel Moon” for the streamer (although he’s hinted that his next project will not be one of those).
Regardless, it’s a pretty fascinating conversation with Snyder: love him or hate him, you can watch the full conversation from “Happy Sad Confused” below. “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” debuts this Friday, April 19 on Netflix.
