generalfrevious said:

SilverWook said:

Great Scott! Can't they use some other villain from the rogue's gallery for a change?

No, because the audience would not be familiar with any other superman villians beside Lex Luthor and Zod. It's all about selling tickets than taking risks. That's why they had the origin story in Man of Steel for the second (or third?) time.

That is all demonstrably false.

Many villains that are not so well known have been popping up in comic books movies. Batman Begins started off with Ra's al Ghul, while well known to fans of the comics, the general public had no idea who he was. Lesser known villains have made their way into Disney's Marvel movies as well.

I don't think featuring Lex Luthor in the sequel would be in the interest of playing it safe, but rather because he is Superman's arch nemesis and modern super hero movies seem to have a life expectancy of three installments. I don't seem to remember too many complaints about the Joker in The Dark Knight, and in fact most people found this tired and overused villain to be the highlight of the film. Hopefully they find a way to make Lex interesting, rather than rehashing Hackman, like they did with Kevin Spacey in the overly shitty Superman Returns.

Also, this is a reboot. What is wrong with a fresh take on the origin story? We haven't seen his origin on the big screen since 1978, that was a year after the first Star Wars film was released, and several years before I was even born. If Marvel can keep rebooting the same characters over and over and over again (Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Punisher, the Hulk, and probably a few others) all in the expanse of ten years, then surely D.C. is allowed to give Superman another go from the beginning after 30+ years.