Maybe it was inevitable, in the wake of Joker, and two Suicide Squad movies, and The Penguin: At The Hollywood Reporter, Borys Kit has the news that DC Studios is working up another Batman-villain movie, this one showcasing both Bane and Deathstroke. THR says the studio “is developing a script from Matthew Orton, a scribe on the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World movie.”
Thanks to Christopher Nolan and Tom Hardy (pictured above), Bane needs little introduction: He’s big, he wears a goofy mask, sometimes he talks in a very memorable manner. He was created by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan in the early ’90s, and is famous for breaking Batman’s back. He is also, on Harley Quinn, weirdly sympathetic and delightful. (And he loves the movie Up.) There have been a lot of other Banes, too, so much that “Bane in other media” is its own Wikipedia page.
As for Deathstroke, who was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, he hasn’t been around much longer than Bane in the DC timeline; he first appeared in 1980. Joe Manganiello briefly appeared as the eyepatch-wearing, armor-clad super-soldier in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but I have a soft spot for the version Manu Bennett played on Arrow. More recently, Esai Morales played the character on Titans.
No director is attached to this villain team-up.
