Washington, April 19 -- Director Zack Snyder appeared on the 'Happy Sad Confused' podcast to promote the second installment of his Rebel Moon films for Netflix.

During the conversation, host Josh Horowitz inquired if it was true that the studio wanted Tom Hanks or Adam Driver to play the villain in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice', as per The Hollywood Reporter.

"I think I did talk to Adam on the phone, yeah," he said of the rumoured castings. "Leonardo DiCaprio, I talked to him about it."

While Snyder ultimately went with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex, starring opposite Henry Cavill's Superman and Ben Affleck's Batman, he revealed the 'Titanic' star "had a lot of great ideas, actually, just in the meeting.

"I think, in the end, he was l...