This article contains spoilers for "Superman." By now, plenty has already been written about the more absurd aspects of James Gunn's "Superman." Those aspects are intentional, of course -- efforts to remove the film from the more self-serious tone of some other recent adaptations and embrace the silliness of the comics.

Superman is full of awesome sci-fi elements, but the most fascinating one might be Lex Luthor's pocket dimension. How does that even work?

He might not have become the ideal father figure from beyond the stars in Superman, but James Gunn revealed that he initially considered Bradley Cooper for the much more sinister role of Lex Luthor when planning his latest film.