DC Studios Is Prepping a Bane and Deathstroke Team Up Movie

Two of Batman’s most vicious villains may soon be sharing the big screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, DC Studios has hired writer Matthew Orton (Captain America: Brave New World) to write a movie that would feature both Bane and Deathstroke. There’s no director yet attached and no guarantee the film ever happens. But, it’s being written with the hope that it’ll happen. io9 reached out to DC for comment or clarification and will update the piece if or when we hear back. The move comes on the eve of the second Joker movie, Joker: Folie à Deux, hitting theaters for Warner Bros. and DC as well as The Penguin rising to popularity on Max. Though those iterations of the Bat-villains aren’t part of the larger DC Universe that DC Studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are developing, each is proof that projects about villains can be hits. Not to mention Gunn as well as David Ayer’s Suicide Squad movies. All of those surely have a lot to do with a Bane Deathstroke movie going into development. Bane, of course, was famously played by Tom Hardy in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. And while that was the character’s biggest cultural moment, he rose to popularity in the comics by breaking Batman’s back in the popular run “Knightfall.” Deathstroke was introduced sometime earlier and appeared in the Titans TV show as well as briefly in Justice League, played by Joe Manganiello. That version of the character was also almost the villain in a Ben Affleck Batman movie and even flirted with getting his own movie, though neither happened. Obviously. This story is developing…