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.

However, Hoult, like many fans, knows that the highly anticipated Superman film has the potential for several sequels if all goes to plan. And if that plays out, the man set to take on the tall task of playing Lex Luthor in the James Gunn-directed film has already pitched a future villain team-up.

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