As Comicbook.com detailed, Luthor and the Joker teamed up in a three-part 1997 episode of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series. The Joker proposes a deal to Luthor, offering to take down Superman for a substantial price. Ultimately, Superman and Batman team up and stop the dynamic duo of villains.

One of the first Lex Luthors that Nicholas Hoult remembers seeing as a kid is the one played by Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville, the CW series featuring Tom Welling as Clark Kent/Kal-El in a high-school coming-of-age setting.

James Gunn's Superman may have found its perfect Man of Steel in David Corenswet now, but there was another actor who was almost set to play the Kryptonian hero, and surprisingly, it was Nicholas Houl