There is a persistent rumor in Hollywood that it was Leonardo Dicaprio who said these illustrious words: “Neither superhero movies nor hard drugs”. He would have recommended it to Timothée Chalamet as a way of safeguarding what aimed to be a successful career, and it certainly seems that paying attention to him has served him well: Chalamet has chained Wonka with Dune: Part Two and it is now a safe value for Warner Bros. Meanwhile, DiCaprio is enormously respected and has indeed never participated in a superhero franchise. She has been faithful to his advice, but there was a moment where she almost turned away from him.
We had already heard about DiCaprio and the superheroes that, facing the trilogy of The dark knight, the producers had wanted to offer him a role. The screenwriter remembered it David S. Goyer long ago: “I remember that after The dark knight the head of Warner Bros. said at the premiere: ‘Enigma must appear, Leo has to interpret it.’ ‘You have to tell Chris that Leo is Enigma.’ This came to nothing, but here it seems that DiCaprio did come closer to participating in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This is how he just revealed it Zack Snyderwho took charge of directing it in 2016.
The director recently came to the podcast Happy Sad Confused as part of the promotion of The warrior who leaves a markthe second installment of his space opera Rebel Moon which has just been added to the catalog of Netflix. That’s when the presenter Josh Horowitz He asked him if it was true what he had heard that Adam Driver and Tom Hanks were tested to play the villain of Batman v Superman. This is, Lex Luthorwhich ended up being interpreted in a rather eccentric way by Jesse Eisenberg.
“I think I spoke to Adam on the phone, yeah. And with Leonardo DiCaprio, I talked to him about it,” Snyder revealed. The director even met with DiCaprio about the possibility of him playing Superman’s archenemy in this ambitious blockbuster (which united the Man of Steel with Batman, but also with Wonder Woman). Although DiCaprio ended up rejecting the offer, Snyder says the meeting was very fruitful. “I actually had a lot of ideas, and just for the meeting.”
In fact, DiCaprio would have ended up leaving his mark on the saga. “In the end he stayed in plan ‘eh, I don’t know.’ But he was very intelligent with the material and with the character. In many ways, I think he was the one who brought up this idea to me about Superman fighting the League of Justice sometime”. This scene, of course, appeared later in League of Justice, when Superman was resurrected and, confused by the experience, attacked his fellow superheroes. So there we have it, the idea came to DiCaprio.
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