“Captain America: Brave New World” writer Matthew Orton has been tapped to write a Bane and Deathstroke movie for DC Studios, according to an insider with knowledge of the project. No director is currently attached to the project. Deathstroke Deathstroke was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. He is a mercenary and assassin who first appeared in “The New Teen Titans” #2 back in 1980. Wizard magazine rated him the 24th greatest villain of all time. In 2009, Deathstroke was ranked as IGN’s 32nd greatest comic book villain of all time. Deathstroke, also known as Deathstroke the Terminator or simply Slade, is known to be the greatest assassin in all of DC Comics. Deathstroke was meant to be a one-off villain for the Teen Titans, his story being that he took over a contract to kill the team after his son succumbed to his own superhuman enhancements. Instead, he became so popular that he ended up evolving into one of the Titans’ most frequent adversaries. The character became so popular that in 1991 that DC gave him his own series, in which he fought Batman for the first time. In the four-part series “City of Assassins,” Deathstroke takes on more of an antihero bent as he uses brutal, Punisher-esque tactics to go after a Gotham City mob boss. His hunt puts him on a collision course with Batman, whom Deathstroke actually defeats in combat. Later, the two form an uneasy alliance to root out a masked assassin who killed one of Commissioner Gordon’s men. Under a previous DC regime, “The Raid” helmer Gareth Evans was in discussions to write and direct a standalone “Deathstroke” film, but the deal never materialized. Bane Created by Chuck Dixon, Graham Nolan, and Dennis O’Neil and debuting in 1993, Bane in the comics is a powerful crime lord who spent his childhood and early adulthood in a South American prison, sentenced by proxy to life for the actions of his father, a revolutionary leader. Surviving his brutal upbringing to become “King” of the prison, Bane was eventually forced to undergo testing of drug called “venom.” Venom gave him incredible strength and other abilities, but at a high price: He must take the drug every 12 hours or he’ll become debilitated. Bane eventually escaped the prison and traveled to Gotham City, wearing a costume that made him look, essentially, like a hulked-out Luchador — but his mask conceals his means of injecting venom. He’s best known for the 1993-1994 “Knightfall” storyline, in which he breaks Batman’s back. The first live-action portrayal of Bane came in 1997’s “Batman and Robin,” in which he was played by pro wrestler Robert “Jeep” Swenson. The “Knightfall” storyline was later very loosely adapted for the 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises,” with Tom Hardy as Bane. Orton is repped by WME, Grandview, and Johnson Shapiro. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
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