DC Deathstroke star, Joe Manganiello, will not reprise his villain role in James Gunn’s DCU reboot. Will the character return with a new actor?
Joe Manganiello played the DC villain Deathstroke in Justice League. He was set to reprise his role in the now scrapped Ben Affleck Batman movie and a Deathstroke film directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid). Now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are pushing the new DCU, the character’s return is uncertain. Either way, it seems like Manganiello will not be returning to play the villain.
“James [Gunn] is my buddy, and James and I had a conversation about it because [DC Comics president] Jim Lee over at DC Comics wanted me to create a graphic novel series based on the screenplay that I wrote for the Deathstroke origin film that, when they were dismantling the DCEU, that went to the wayside as well… Jim read it, and wanted it to be a graphic novel series, but no one could assure me that, if it garnered the attention of directors and producers, that I couldn’t be attached. So I had to let it go. James Gunn was just like, ‘Let it go.'”
There has been no confirmation of whether Deathstroke will make an appearance in James Gunn’s DCU reboot. The first entry will be the animation Creature Commandoes, with the first film being “Superman: Legacy.”
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