BATMAN MOVIE MOVIE

There was a lot of work that he was doing to it, he was trying to change it.'Ĭould we see the movie someday after all? Manganiello doesn't think so, but he did say he hasn't said goodbye to Deathstroke yet: 'It's also not over currently. He also included the caveat: 'There was a script, but not a loved script. He was entering into a little more of the Arkham, he's going into where you keep everyone who's bad, and everyone has shifted.' The film was also going to feature Arkham Asylum, with cinematographer Robert Richardson, who was attached to the movie, explaining on the Happy Sad Confused (opens in new tab) podcast: 'He was going more into the insanity aspects, so I think you would've seen something a little darker than what we've seen in the past, and more into the individual, who's inside Batman. And I just really thought that that was gonna be a really cool dichotomy to see.' This ties in with the League of Assassins Easter egg on Deathstroke's sword, revealed in a Snyder Cut exhibit. Plus, Manganiello gave a clue to Deathstroke's past: 'The idea that they were both trained in the League of Assassins, and that one went one way and one went the other. I wanted him to be just a man who experienced a tragedy, and instead of becoming this altruistic utopian who believed that people could be better, and a better society, he was just this nihilistic killer, and there was a line in the sand between the tactics that he was willing to use and the ones that Bruce was willing to use.' Manganiello also revealed more about Deathstroke's characterization in the movie: 'I really, really didn't want Deathstroke to have powers. It was Lex Luthor getting a hold of Deathstroke and letting him know, I know who killed your son and his name is Bruce, Bruce Wayne.' 'Which is why, in the restored end credits sequence that appears in Zack 's version, that was what we originally shot. 'In the Batman script, Deathstroke loses his son and blamed Batman for it,' Manganiello told the MANvsGAME Twitch stream. Mangniello also eventually explained why Deathstroke was after Batman. In fact, the original Justice League post-credits scene – restored in the Snyder Cut –set up the now canceled Batman movie. 'It was this systemic thing: he killed everyone close to Bruce and destroyed his life to try and make him suffer because he felt that Bruce was responsible for something that happened to him.' 'It was a really dark story in which Deathstroke was like a shark or a horror movie villain that was dismantling Bruce’s life from the inside out,” Manganiello told Yahoo! Entertainment. Manganiello was set to play Deathstroke in the movie, a role he also holds in Justice League and the Snyder Cut. Thanks to Joe Manganiello, we know a lot about what the Batfleck solo movie would've featured. Officially, he's not coming back – but stranger things have certainly happened in the DCEU (like the release of the Snyder Cut, after all). That brings us up to the present, where the future of Batfleck is still blurry. We also learned in 2020 that Affleck returned for additional photography on Zack Snyder's Justice League – shooting his first-ever scene opposite Jared Leto's Joker. Robert Pattinson was announced to be his successor in May 2019, starring in Reeves' The Batman, which isn't in the same timeline as other DCEU projects.Īffleck seemed to have left the DCEU behind for good, but in August 2020 news broke that he'd be returning to the role for The Flash, which is set to explore the multiverse, as Michael Keaton's Batman is also involved. It wasn't until 2019, though, that it was finally revealed that Batfleck was no more. The theatrical cut was not a success with fans or critics, and it massively underwhelmed at the box office, netting just short of $658 million to date. Hence the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement, and the Snyder Cut now streaming on HBO Max. The story of that movie is fairly well known by now, but Snyder stepped away from the movie after a family tragedy, and Joss Whedon was brought in to oversee reshoots that substantially changed the film. Reeves then scrapped the script and started fresh, and rumors of a new Batman soon sprung up.Īffleck returned for 2017's Justice League. Originally, Affleck was set to co-write (with Geoff Johns), direct, and star in the solo movie – but he stepped away from the director's chair in 2017, and was replaced by Matt Reeves. Like its predecessor, it wasn't a critical hit – but did perform well at the box office, and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn became a standout, going on to star in Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey. Affleck then reprised his role for a small part in David Ayer's Suicide Squad, which also released in 2016.