Spacey's voiceover is a throwback to Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), which is also narrated in retrospect by a dead character.

The show is set to star Kevin Spacey as well as be produced and directed by David Fincher and Spacey's Trigger Street Productions.

Spacey's first professional stage appearance was as a Spear carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI, part 1 in 1981.

Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.

Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( 1988 ), opposite Lemmon, and the Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder – starring comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 ).

The film was a failure at the box office, grossing $ 339, 379 with a budget of $ 6 million, but critics praised Spacey's direction.

Spacey's first season started in September 2004, and opened with the British premiere of the play Cloaca by Maria Goos, directed by Spacey, which opened to mixed reviews.

Critics applauded Spacey's daring for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer / manager had yet to develop.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

A Sunday Times article stated that Spacey's " love affair with acting, and the absence of a visible partner in the life of an attractive 40-year-old, has resulted in misunderstanding and Esquire magazine's bet-hedging assertion two years ago that he must be gay.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said the actors coped " faultlessly " with what were difficult roles ; he called Spacey's performance " the energy that drives the film ", saying the actor commanded audience involvement despite Lester's not always being sympathetic.

Jackson said Mendes ' theatrical roots rarely showed, and that the " most remarkable " aspect was that Spacey's performance did not overshadow the film.

Though Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee, and Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work and the film was strongly promoted by the studio, Beyond the Sea received mixed-to-poor reviews upon wide release, and box office results were disappointing.

Some critics praised Spacey's performance, largely owing to his decision to use his own singing voice.

The name " Trigger Street " is a reference to an actual street in Spacey's boyhood home of Chatsworth, where Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ( and Roy's horse Trigger ) had their ranch.

As of mid-2005, its most recent release ( in a joint venture with Rhino Records ) was the soundtrack of the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, which starred Kevin Spacey and featured Spacey's renditions of Darin songs.

However, Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee and former Darin manager Steve Blauner responded with enthusiastic feedback to Spacey's work on the film.

Despite the mixed reviews, some critics praised Spacey's performance, largely due to his decision to use his own singing voice.

", a clear indication that, in Spacey's eyes, he was Keyser Söze.

Echoing much of Spacey's reign at the Old Vic, it suffered mass criticism despite boasting a famous cast that included James Fox, Maximilian Schell and Neve Campbell.

Eisner writes the comic book ' Bad Guys ' which is coordinated by Kevin Spacey's TV / film production company Trigger Street Productions and Kickstart Comics.

Many critics praised Wilder's and Pryor's, and Kevin Spacey's performances, but they mostly agreed that the script was terrible.

Though he coerced Superboy into serving his own purposes, Luthor continues to claim that he views Kon-El as his son.

He continues to perform acts of heroism on his own throughout, such as protecting a pair of Asian diplomats, as well as Lex Luthor from the assassins Cheshire and Sportsmaster in " Targets ".

Lex Luthor states that to Roy Harper that he brings his will to his party as Mercy Graves continues the attack on Roy Harper.

As the paper continues to struggle, the Planets owner Franklin Stern sells the paper to Lex Luthor.

In the original Richard Donner films, Luthor is a vain, wisecracking money-hungry gangster, with a particular fixation on real estate, who plots outrageous disasters for Superman to try to avert.

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman II

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

Both the Hackman and Spacey versions of Luthor surround themselves with bungling henchmen and dim-witted molls.

Gene Hackman, who played Lex Luthor, refused to return for the reshoots, so Lester instead used a stunt double and an impersonator to loop Luthor's lines onto footage of Hackman shot by Donner.

Co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as archvillain Lex Luthor.

Mack enjoys the fact that her character was created specifically for the show, because she feels like she does not have to worry about being compared to someone else in the same role, which she likens to people comparing Michael Rosenbaum ’ s performance as Lex Luthor to Gene Hackman ’ s portrayal in the Superman film series of the 1970s – 1980s.

Adding up all these vocal appearances Clancy has made as Lex Luthor, Clancy Brown has played Lex Luthor longer than any other actor in history, even Gene Hackman who played Luthor in the first Superman film saga and his Justice League co-star Michael Rosenbaum who played Lex Luthor in Smallville.

When Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor cuts short the recitation, his assistant Miss Teshmocker, played by Valerie Perrine, protests, " I like Trees.

* The Legion of Doom was referenced in the animated series South Park episode " Krazy Kripples " featured Christopher Reeve ( who portrayed Superman in the movies ) forming his own version of the Legion of Doom, complete with the Hall of Doom as their headquarters ; its main goal, according to Reeve, was to kill Gene Hackman ( aka Lex Luthor in the movies: as a news reporter said " if irony were made out of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now ").

For the role of B. Z., the producers wanted a star with a similar stature to Gene Hackman when he had played Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie.

Marlon Brando would eventually be cast as Jor-El, causing Gene Hackman to be cast as Luthor as he wanted desperately to work with Brando.

He eventually takes on the role of a supervillain, and is opposed by his archnemesis, Gene Hackman ( the actor who portrayed supervillain Lex Luthor, Superman's archnemesis, whom Reeve refers to as Hack Man ).

Alexander Luthor, Jr. ( the son of Earth-Three's version of Luthor ) returned to the DC Universe along with other survivors from Crisis on Infinite Earths as part of a scheme to create a perfect Earth, under the pretense of restoring Earth-Two.

Luthor confronts his impostor in Infinite Crisis # 3, but is intercepted by Superboy-Prime ( a teenage version of Superman from Earth-Prime ), who is allied with Alexander.

In JLA, Luthor ( alongside Joker and Cheetah III ) gathers together a new " Injustice League " and, outfitted in a new version of his warsuit, sets out to destroy the Justice League with them.

After the events of Blackest Night, Luthor went on to build a gynoid version of Lois Lane using Brainiac technology.

This version of Luthor appears to have little personal dislike for Superman, other than the fact the hero interferes with his criminal schemes.

Along with surrounding himself with dimwitted henchmen and molls, this version of Luthor also favors hairpieces to conceal his baldness.

The storyline in the first arc of Supergirl depicts a darker, evil version of Kara emerging when Lex Luthor exposes her to Black Kryptonite.

** Superboy of the Super Seven: This Elseworlds version of Kon-El is one of the " Super Seven ", a group of heroes which include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and a Lex Luthor / Metallo hybrid, who help humans fight off " The Horde ", an alien race that occupies Earth.

He is also ( indirectly ) the source of the player characters ' powers, as a future version of Lex Luthor used his technology to create " exobytes ", highly-advanced nanorobots with the ability to infuse an organic host with superpowers.

In the wake of the Crisis, John Bryne and the aforementioned Marv Wolfman greatly popularized the idea of Luthor as an evil businessman and established their version of the character as having always been a ruthless capitalist.

At the last second, Batman reveals that he anticipated the Syndicate's betrayal, and had used the Tangent Universe's version of Green Lantern to resurrect Luthor behind the Syndicate's back.

Teaming up with the Cheetah, Zoom stretched his influence to the Justice League, but stated repeatedly that his only interest was " making the Flash a better hero " and was soon enlisted by the villainous Mockingbird ( later revealed to be an alternate reality version of Lex Luthor ).

Around this time, a future version of Courtney is seen in Teen Titans # 53 along with Lex Luthor and his future Titans.

In this game, Lex Luthor has created a virtual version of Metropolis, and Superman enters Lex's interdimensional portal, where Luthor negotiates to Superman that he must fly through his maze of rings scattered across virtual Metropolis in order to save his friends.

Lex Luthor has created a virtual version of Metropolis.

When the " Death of Superman " story arc happened in the comics, Maggs presented a very faithful, though much pared down version of the tale, which featured Stuart Milligan as Clark Kent / Superman, Lorelei King as Lois Lane, and William Hootkins as Lex Luthor.

The animated series version is shown to be somewhat more benevolent than his comic counterpart, as he, in one way or another, always helps the primary protagonist in the episodes in which he appears, albeit for his own reasons ( such as once betraying Lex Luthor after Batman bribed him with additional funding to a public broadcasting channel ).

An alternate version of Blaze and ( presumably ) Satanus appear as creations of Lex Luthor to use against Superman in Superman: Red Son.

This version of Ultraman speaks and behaves in a manner similar to a stereotypical Italian-American mobster, and is weakened by blue kryptonite, instead of green ( Ultraman destroyed the last piece of blue kryptonite on his Earth, but their Lex Luthor has been visiting other Earths .).

When the " Death of Superman " story arc happened in the comics, Maggs presented a very faithful, though much pared down, version of the tale which featured Stuart Milligan as Clark Kent / Superman, Lorelei King as Lois Lane, and William Hootkins as Lex Luthor.

Apparently the Society, led by Alexander Luthor, Jr., has in its roster a new version of Crazy Quilt, a female one with the characteristic costume and vision-helmet of the previous villain.