Batman villains Bane and Deathstroke will appear together in a new movie at the James Gunn and Peter Safran-led DC Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The script is being developed by Matthew Orton, whose upcoming work includes Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World. No director is attached to the project.
Introduced in the early 1990s, the brutish Bane is best known for Tom Hardy’s menacing portrayal of the character in the 2012 Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight Rises. More recently, a comical take on Bane has been voiced by James Adomian in the animated series Harley Quinn.
Meanwhile, the former Army operative Slade Wilson/Deathstroke has been portrayed by Manu Bennett in Greg Berlanti’s CW series Arrow and Joe Manganiello in a post-credit scene of Justice League. At one point, Manganiello was slated to reprise the character in a Ben Affleck-starring solo Batman movie and attached to star in a separate Deathstroke origin film, but those plans never came to fruition.
It’s currently unknown whether this new Bane and Deathstroke movie will be connected to Gunn and Safran’s DC Universe.
The next DC Studios film to hit the big screen is Joker: Folie à Deux, opening in theaters on October 4th. Meanwhile, the Batman spinoff Penguin is currently airing on HBO and Max.