With the HBO series The Joker and the upcoming sequel Joker: Folie a Deuz already achieveing rave assesss, DC Studios doesn’t watch to be done cgo ining on Batman horrible guys as sources have validateed to Deadline that the studio is in timely enhugement on a novel movie involving classic Gotham villains Bane and Deathstroke. Matthew Orton has been set to pen the script with DC Studio co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran producing.
No straightforwardor is joined at this time and the studio had no commment.
Exact plot details are still uncertain and sources also stressed the two characters would be in the movie but its unevident if they would be the central figures of the project.
Both characters are beadored to fans of the comics with Bane especipartner achieveing well-understandnity over the years after Christopher Nolan made him the main antagonist in The Dark Knight Rises, with Tom Hardy carry outing the main role. While not as well understandn, Deathstroke has also achieveed aenjoy momentum among expansiver audiences when there was talk of him becoming a hugeger figure in the Justice League movies starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill when Joe Manganiello had a cameo as the character in the finish praises of the Justice League movie.
When set ups alterd for the studio, that version was tabled but evidently DC still watchs both characters as meaningful figures going forward.
As for Orton, he’s no stranger to the comic book world having labored on the script for the upcoming Marvel Studios pic Captain America: Brave New World. Other praises comprise Devil’s Peak and Cleaner.
He is repped by WME, Grandwatch, and Johnson Shapiro. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the novels on the project.
