Bane and Deathstroke to feature in DC supervillain team-up movie

by Dan Cooper |
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Two of Batman’s most popular foes, Bane and Deathstroke, are set to share the screen as Warner Bros’ new look DC Universe continues to take shape.

Both Bane and Deathstroke have graced cinema screens before. When it comes to the comic books, the duo are among the more beloved members of Batman’s colourful cast of villains, and it looks like that popularity has led to a supervillain team-up movie that will introduce the characters to James Gunn’s all-new DC Universe.

Next year will see Warner Bros’ new line of DC movies kick off with Superman: Legacy, written and directed by Gunn himself. Following that, a string of films have been announced including a Batman movie, The Brave And The Bold and Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow. Then there are planned TV shows such as HBO’s Lanterns, a space cop series that will feature the Green Lantern corps. It looks like Kyle Chandler will be leading the cast for that show, playing Hal Jordan, the same Green Lantern that Ryan Reynolds had a go at portraying back in 2011.

However, Warner Bros has most assuredly found success in films about DC villains. 2019’s Joker earned over a billion dollars at the global box office whilst the studio also managed to tempt Colin Farrell back into the prosthetics to play The Penguin in a limited series run which has just released to critical acclaim. If they can make it work on a creative level, a team-up movie (or a versus one) featuring Bane and Deathstroke could continue this run.

Bane was of course memorably played by Tom Hardy in 2012’s The Dark Knight RIses, while Joe Manganiello portrayed Deathstroke in some of the Zack Snyder films. Manganiello never really got the chance to do the character justice though, and a planned Deathstroke solo movie from The Raid's Gareth Evans was also in the pipeline at one point, before disappearing.

Matthew Orton, a writer on the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World, is penning the script according to The Hollywood Reporter, and no director has been announced as of yet. With films such as Devil’s Peak and Operation Finale on his resume, could this newly-announced project be played fairly straight? We’ve seen Sony struggle to get the tone right for its own series of supervillain movies with projects such as Morbius and Venom: Let There Be Carnage adopting a kitsch style, even if the latter did make a lot of money.

More Bane and Deathstroke news as we get it.

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