Have a big budget clown The movie is coming out in a few weeks penguin The HBO series has just launched, and a few other DC villains are taking the spotlight.
sources revealed hollywood reporter Bane, the super-steroid-injected villain who appeared in the 2012 Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight Risesand Deathstroke, another popular archnemesis from the comic book franchise, are being tethered into a movie. DC Studios, led by James Gunn and Peter Safran, is developing a script written by Matthew Orton, who serves as a scribe on the upcoming film. Captain America: Brave New World Movie.
There is no director for this project.
Bane is a relatively new addition to Batman’s rogues gallery, created by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Graham Nolan in the early 1990s. The character was born and raised in a prison on a fictional Caribbean island, a place where he not only honed his brutal fighting skills but also absorbed the teachings of a variety of international criminals. He was later tested on horrific steroids, an experiment that made him incredibly strong but also addicted to its serum.
The character made his mark in the epic storyline called “Knightfall,” in which he brutally broke Batman’s back, a story that catapulted him into the upper echelon of Bat-villains. The character has appeared in many video games and TV series, most notably in the final installment of Nolan’s Batman trilogy, played by a sullen Tom Hardy. The Dark Knight Rises.
Deathstroke debuted in 1980 as the top villain of the Teen Titans, but the super-powerful master assassin went on to become one of DC’s most popular villains, facing off against Batman and the Justice League and becoming the star of his own comic. Second-rate.
The character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez and appears frequently in video games and animated works. Esai Morales played the character in the recent live-action film titan series, Joe Manganiello guest-starred as the one-eyed killer in some of Zack Snyder’s DC movies. There was a time when he was going to be a villain batmanthen directed and starring Ben Affleck. At another point, he was also cast as the star of a film. death knell movie from raid Director Gareth Ifans.
DC and Warner Bros. have had considerable success highlighting their villains. The most prominent example is clownFilmmaker Todd Phillips’ unique take on the Clown Prince of Crime helped the film top $1 billion at the box office, with actor Joaquin Phoenix and composer Hildur Guzner Hildur Guðnadóttir won an Academy Award. sequel, Clown: Pas de deuxpremiered at the Venice Film Festival and opened on October 4.
Starring Colin Farrow Penguina spinoff of Matt Reeves’ 2022 film batman. The eight-episode series premiered on HBO on September 19 to critical acclaim.
Margot Robbie played anti-heroine Harley Quinn in three movies, including a 2021 film directed by Gunn suicide squadThis proved to be a winning combination for both the character and the actor.
But picking villains and making them compelling enough to lead a feature-length film that audiences will watch is a challenge. The first step, of course, is writing.
Orton’s resume is filled with down-to-earth, gritty work involving criminals and killers. He got his first credit pen ending actionThis true-life drama follows the plan to capture Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust. Chris Weitz directed the feature film starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley.
He also created Devil’s Peakis a serial killer crime miniseries produced by South Africa’s DSTV, including a hostage thriller cleanerstarring Clive Owen and Daisy Ridley, in the can. He was honored at Marvel Moon Knight TV show, the company brought him back for reshoots Captain America: Brave New Worldinvolving terrorism. The film is released on February 14, 2025.
Orton is repped by WME, Grandview and Johnson Shapiro.
