‘The Raid’ Vet Gareth Evans in Talks to Direct DC Comics ‘Deathstroke’ Film (Exclusive) 0

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Things have been quiet on the Deathstroke front for awhile now, and fans have been getting nervous about his big screen spotlight. Joe Manganiello brought the DC Comics legend to life at the very end of Justice League, but his future with the DC Extended Universe has been iffy since Matt Reeves signed on to direct The Batman, the original movie Deathstroke was meant to star in.

 

However, it looks like things are actually doing alright for the masked mercenary. Manganiello just gave a short update on the Deathstroke film, and the blurb has made fans hopeful.

 

Tonight, Manganiello stopped by the premiere of Rampage, and the actor met up with Variety to chat. It was there the site asked how things are doing with Deathstroke, and the actor simply had this to relay:

 

“There are things in the work, that’s all I can say.”

 

The note is a vague one, but it does give fans hope that DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures have not forgotten the mercenary. After the villain’s tenure with The Batman came into question, audiences were left wondering where Deathstroke could fit into the DCEU. Those worries persisted until reports said Gareth Evans (The Raid) was in talks to helm a movie focusing on the DC villain, but few updates about Deathstroke have been given since.

 

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Joe Manganiello Teases ‘Deathstroke’ Origin Movie

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Recently, Manganiello sat down with Chris Hardwick for the podcast ID10T. The episode, which can be found here, see the two men talk about everything from Dungeons & Dragons to old-school toys. However, it is there talk about the DCEU that got fans intrigued.

 

About an hour in, Hardwick asks Manganiello how he tapped into Slade Wilson and the character of Deathstroke for Justice League. It was there the actor admitted he leveled with the role by coming up with an elaborate backstory for the character, and that head-canon has expanded through some very official channels.

 

“There was talk of an origin movie. I’m not giving news; This was in the [news],” the actor said, nodding to reports concerning the DCEU and its work with Gareth Edwards. The director has been tapped by Warner Bros. to do a villain film for the DCEU with Deathstroke, and it sounds like it could delve into the guy’s backstory.

 

“I spent six months prior to all those phone calls writing a backstory that was turned into sixteen pages which was turned into a treatment which went into my Skype call with Gareth.”

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How the studio ended up auditioning Joe Manganiello for Deathstroke.

 

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A good guy and a bad guy walk onto a movie set. Both walk away feeling wronged. Disappointed. Underwhelmed. Audiences felt pretty much the same when a hopelessly messy version of Justice League hit theaters almost four years ago.

 

Both Ray Fisher, playing hero Cyborg, and Joe Manganiello, playing villain Deathstroke, saw their futures as iconic DC Comics characters vaporized in the aftermath of behind-the-scenes battles, catastrophic reviews, abandoned sequels, and enduring disagreement. Then, four years later, they got a do-over.

 

That’s where the actors found themselves last fall when Vanity Fair interviewed them on the set of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which was in the midst of shooting a new sequence for an unprecedented second try at Hollywood’s most notorious superhero face-plant. The “Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of the #SnyderCut” has already been told in detail.

 

The Q&A below is the story of Cyborg and Deathstroke.

 

Fisher thought that playing the reconstructed robotic hero in the original 2017 film would be a career breakthrough. But after Zack Snyder left the project amid a family tragedy and irreconcilable disagreements with Warner Bros., Avengers filmmaker Joss Whedon took over. That’s when the project became a source of personal upheaval for the actor, as Fisher’s negative experiences with Whedon exploded into tensions with the studio that continue today.

 

When Snyder was still in control of the original film, Manganiello shot a post-credit cameo as the assassin Deathstroke, intended as a prologue to a much more substantial role in Ben Affleck’s planned stand-alone film about the Caped Crusader. When that version of The Batman movie fell apart in preproduction, Manganiello’s footage was re-edited by Whedon to tease a Justice League sequel—which also never happened.

 

After Snyder agreed to return to the project last year to finalize his original vision as a four-hour event on HBO Max, both Fisher and Manganiello signed on to shoot the project’s one major new sequence. They’ll also see the their earlier performances restored to something closer to Snyder’s original intent. Fans will finally get to see it all in its entirety on March 18.

 

Both actors sat down during a break on the Simi Valley set last October to discuss how Justice League went awry, and what they hope this version sets right. 

 

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Joe M. shared what the Batman/Deathstroke movie was going to be about.

 

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It has previously been reported that Manganiello’s Deathstroke was then expected to continue in the DCEU and serve as the key antagonist in what would have been Affleck’s Batman solo-film following the release of Justice League. Unfortunately for Manganiello, however, those plans were put on indefinite hold when Affleck stepped away from directing the project and was later replaced by director Matt Reeves. When Affleck finally gave up the cowl altogether in 2019, making way for Robert Pattinson’s turn in the role, all hope of an Affleck-led Batman movie featuring Manganiello seemingly dissipated.

 

More recently, however, Affleck has returned to the role of Batman via Ezra Miller’s upcoming The Flash solo-outing, sparking renewed calls for his own film. With fans already flooding social media with the #makethebatfleckmovie hashtag, Manganiello is sure to have stoked excitement even further by setting his Instagram profile pic to an image of him as Deathstroke.

 

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Deathstroke actor Joe Manganiello might be teasing a return to the DCEU.

 

The actor played the assassin in Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League, and was originally set to be the villain of Ben Affleck's scrapped Batman movie, which morphed into The Batman. After the Snyder Cut, the character's DCEU future has been unclear.

 

But a new Instagram post from Manganiello has re-ignited speculation. The picture is simply captioned "New profile pic…" and shows the actor as Deathstroke, though with some artistic additions. The actor's Twitter profile picture has also been updated.

 

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On 2/21/2024 at 8:07 AM, Bosco685 said:

Sad but not unexpected. Right now the Gunn DCEU is focusing elsewhere on every front. We will see how that pans out.