Russell Crowe has explained why we didn't see him pop up in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

According to the Gladiator star, there were initial plans to do more than one Superman movie before the super face-off, but when plans changed there were no further discussions about including Crowe's Jor-El, Superman's father, who we met in Man of Steel.

Crowe was talking to Digital Spy ahead of the release of his new movie The Nice Guys, where he plays thuggish PI Jackson Healy who teams with Ryan Gosling's Holland March to locate a missing girl in Shane Black's '70s-set noirish buddy movie.

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Crowe is currently filming his next project, Universal's reboot of The Mummy, which he says is going to "scare the shit" out of audiences.

Crowe plays split-personality sufferer Dr Jekyll, opposite Tom Cruise's Navy SEAL in a reimagining which is planned to be part of a whole new 'Universal Monsters' universe.

When we asked if he'd be up for a standalone for Jekyll, he told us "that's potentially what's on the table".

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The Nice Guys is released in cinemas on June 3.

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