We spoke with actor Jesse Eisenberg this morning about his new movie The Double , during which time we also had the chance to ask him about his forthcoming role as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman . Here's what he had to say about the project, which he says he'll start working on next month.

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It'll definitely be played by a different person, but I don't know really how different this -- I don't know the history as well as the people making the movie, so I guess it's up to them to figure out how much they want to separate it from previous incarnations. But I will treat it like it's its own role. There's no way to play the history of the character played by other people, unless you do some kind of wink, but that doesn't seem like a responsible way to act. So I will just do it as though it's a character, in the same way you do a movie like The Double, which is a smaller movie -- but you just kind of treat it like a character, and that's probably the best course of action, I think.I'm not allowed to say anything, because of their privacy.The character's really good, so it's like doing anything else. They make a lot of those movies, so if you're an actor in things, you will probably cross paths with it at some point. But the character's written really well. It's a really great role. The fact that it's in a big movie, you know, it seems like a character that would be in any kind of movie. It just happens to be in a bigger, flashier kind of thing. Batman v s. Superman is slated for release May 6, 2016.