According to The Hollywood Reporter, DC Studios is developing a new movie featuring Bane and Deathstroke. The ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ co-writer Matthew Orton is attached to develop the script, but a director has not yet been announced.
Writer Chuck Dixon and artist Graham Nolan introduced Bane in the early 1990s as a born-and-raised prisoner who ended up as the subject of an experiment that gave him incredible strength but left him addicted.
In live-action, Tom Hardy played the villain as part of Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ The character has also appeared in various video games and TV series over the years.
Deathstroke, meanwhile, made his first appearance in 1980 as a Teen Titans villain and later became an enemy of Batman and the Justice League. He popped up in several projects, like the live-action ‘Titans’ series, where Esai Morales played him, and cameos in Zack Snyder’s DC movies, portrayed by Joe Manganiello.
DC Studios brought its villains under the spotlight in recent years through projects like Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ and HBO’s newly-released ‘The Penguin’ series. Joker returned with a sequel, ‘Folie à Deux,’ at this year’s Venice Film Festival ahead of its theater release on October 4.
