Batman baddies Bane and Deathstroke are getting their own movie together, for some reason
Look, we'll take it—Bane and Deathstroke are both interesting villains—we're just not sure we understand it
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Despite it now being nearly two years since Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was putting its beleaguered DC Comics line of superhero films into the hands of actual money makers James Gunn and Peter Safran, the whole apparatus has still felt pretty tentative to date. Partly, that’s just because, after clearing out the bodies left behind by the previous administration—i.e., The Flash— it’s taken Gunn a minute to get Superman, presumably his whole thesis statement on the universe, into theaters. (It’s out in July of 2025.) But also, it’s just been hard to get a shape for this thing, with only a handful of future projects announced, like Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow and Andy Muschietti’s The Brave And The Bold. (It doesn’t help that the brand as a whole remains weirdly divided, with both Joker, and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, existing in their own little side pockets.) Into that miasma, though, we can now add a new data point: THR reports that Moon Knight and Captain America: Big Red Harrison Ford writer Matthew Orton has been tapped to write a movie based around Batman bad guys Deathstroke and Bane.