“When I wrote my Superman Lives script, Rooker was who I saw in my head as Lex Luthor.
Kevin Smith has mentioned before that he wanted Rooker as Lex for Superman Lives, but knowing that his intentions date back to the writing process takes the story to a whole new level and means that the actor was in mind when Kevin Smith was shaping his version of the supervillain character.
Rooker sported a shiny, shaven head in Kevin Smith’s slacker buddy comedy Mallrats and he certainly looks very Lex Luthor-like.
Even now, Superman Lives remains one of the greatest curiosities of comic book cinema, and we can only imagine what exactly it would have been like.