>The script was written with Clive Owen in mind, but the studio is worried whether he's suited physically for the role. No talks were made with the actor.
>Suit screen test was made with an extra, no name is currently assigned for the role.
>Other studio choices include Kyle Chandler, Edward Norton, Taylor Kitsch.
>Tom Hardy has expressed interest in joining DC Film Universe but the studio is willing to find him a much bigger role than one-time villain.
>Over the year fans have name-dropped several actors they see suitable for the role, including Stephan Lang, Josh Stewart, Karl Urban and Kit Harrington and the studio would like to make a choice that would be popular with target audiences
>Ultimately if there will be no clear candidate suitable for the role it may go to the Joe Manganiello, who auditioned for Superman, Batman, Deadshot and Aquaman, losing to Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Will Smith and Jason Momoa respectively. Manganiello was rumoured to play Deathstroke in Suicide Squad but the role was scrapped before the shooting began.
>Tom Hardy has expressed interest in joining DC Film Universe but the studio is willing to find him a much bigger role than one-time villain. Define "much bigger".
Gabriel Hernandez
Must feel bad to be joe manginello knowing your everyone's LAST resort
Chase Torres
>>Tom Hardy has expressed interest in joining DC Film Universe but the studio is willing to find him a much bigger role than one-time villain. Did you write a joke article just for this line user
Camden Allen
>bigger role than one-time villain BANE?
Kevin Foster
>Edward Norton, Taylor Kitsch. Clive Owen would be great But can we not have these people?
Tyler Hall
Darkseid
Earlier Michael Ironside was locked for the role but he's unfit and too old to play the version envisioned by Zack Snyder
Xavier Campbell
Isn't same thing with Ryan Reynolds, him wanting to be some comic character, applying left and right and getting GL and Deadpool? >tfw JL movie involves Warworld where people fight to death and Darkseid is champion
John Long
>using Deathstroke as a one-time villain That's dumb.
Grayson Bailey
>>Tom Hardy has expressed interest in joining DC Film Universe but the studio is willing to find him a much bigger role than one-time villain.
Connor Evans
I guess that will depend on how the performance will be received - Joker was planned for next 3 films but due to mixed reviews he was put on hold indefinitely.
Landon Fisher
>Tom Hardy has expressed interest in joining DC Film Universe but the studio is willing to find him a much bigger role than one-time villain.
This is the guy people want for Middy right?
Isaac Jackson
Slade is supposed to be old isn't he?
So why not some old action movie star, like take any of the names from Expendables drop em' in a hat and they could be Slade.
Tyler Kelly
Works for me.
Carson Morris
I really should start paying more attention to actors so i can have desires for castings.
I am especialy anxious to see who plays granny goodness.
Owen Miller
Why not a good actor?
Oliver Collins
>Clive Owen playing an assassin
Come on Ben, I know you're jealous of Damon sometimes but you don't need to start stealing from his movies.
It's just going to be mostly voice over, most modern actors don't have very manly faces unlike the old action stars
Kevin Anderson
Pulled from your ass
Jonathan Morgan
Deathstroke is a big role they should go with Tom Hardy stephen lang is good too scoop him up before he becomes cable
Caleb Jones
He'd be a bigger guy.
Jeremiah Robinson
He would have been a good Supes or Aquaman for sure. I feel bad for guys like Isaiah Mustafa who talked about wanting to play Luke Cage for so long.
Jayden Perry
Because everyone knows that Mel Gibson would be the best choice but so far he's banned from Hollywood.
Ian Gonzalez
>big role
For you
Asher Garcia
wait a minute wait a minute
is this not the same guy that Will Smith just played
how are they not the same character
why am i supposed to give a shit
Brandon Rogers
Mm, I would love to have a 5'8" Darkseid looking up to everyone.
Noah Rodriguez
Doesn't he just like sits all the time?
But it's not user, it's from the TheWrap insider that confirmed yesterday that it's for Batman solo film, ScreenRant got a hold of him.
Josiah Carter
No, Deathstroke is bootleg Deadpool.
David Baker
the problem with Mel Gibson is simple; even though he'd perfect, and I absolutely love him, he's still only like, 5'9" compared to Affleck's 6'4".
Elijah Evans
But he's not hot and Slade is hot. How is he a good choice?
Camden Evans
3-/10
Batman was 8 cm taller than Bane and yet it worked due to movie magic.
Parker Gomez
>tfw originally Sup Forums was saying how a Suicide Squad film would be a 3 way battle film between Joker, the Squad, and Deathstroke >tfw it'll never be
Aiden Powell
I don't care who he plays, just give Clive Owen more opportunities to be a badass. He does it better than most.
Lincoln Green
Oh, I know there's movie magic, but I just don't see how they can make Mel have such a large presence on screen. I mean, he got buff for his Expendables role, but he's just not a very tall guy. I'd be okay with him being Slade though.
Elijah Gutierrez
Not really, that's Thanos. I can't take manlet Hardy trying to omega beam people.
Andrew Morales
If they'll go with the The Good, The Bad, The Ugly soft remake it still can be with Batman being The Good, Deathstroke being The Bad and Joker being The Ugly.
Xavier Gray
Please...
>Taylor Kitsch I actually like him more then not and even I am like What The Fuck? with this.
Ryder Smith
Deadshot is strictly a sharpshooter and marksman, Deathstroke is that along with being a physical combatant on Batman's level.
Leo Perry
>According to the source closely connected to the two of them, Matt Damon served as a consultant for the script, sometimes answering calls from Affleck in the middle of the night and helping him whenever the writer and director of upcoming Batman film was stuck along the way. Apparently Clive Owen was Damon's first and only suggestion when Ben was looking for someone to play a "grizzled and meticulous assassin" having remembered working with him on the set of The Bourne Identity fifteen years ago.
Charles Robinson
Introduce Sportsmaster too.
Daniel Foster
IIRC he did get Superman but his commitment to True Blood meant he couldn't take it.
We could have had Manganiello as Superman, Josh Brolin as Batman and Olga Kurylenko as Wonder Woman.
Juan Butler
I'm honestly surprised RDJ hasn't pulled some strings and got him a role with Marvel
Liam Lewis
>Clive Owen Muh dick would explode.
Matthew Reed
Plus he knows how to use a variety of other weaponry and combines his fighting style with them. Deathstroke is the number 1 assassin in the world right? Anyone got a list?
Jason James
>the studio would like to make a choice that would be popular with target audiences
And this is exactly why DCU continues to suck
>hey guys, we're totally insecure and have no creative vision whatsoever -- let's just focus group and market test this to hell and back, that always works, right?
Blake Johnson
But they absolutely have a creative vision, hence it all being dark & epic as fuck and not campy bayformers tier garbage for every joe fuckass who buys a ticket.
Colton Phillips
But Snyder and Goyer would still be behind the films.
No Affleck means no Terrio, for better or worse.
All that's certain is there would be less shitposting with those choices, all the better for Sup Forums.
Landon Peterson
>Kyle chandler >Taylor Kitsch
Why is everyone in Dillon up for Slade's role?
Alexander Kelly
That was synders vision and it was shit.
Nicholas King
>no shitposting about Cavill's hairline >no shitposting about Affleck, period >no shitposting about Gadot being Israeli/Jewish/too thin because Olga has a Bond girl body (I wonder if the musclefags would still make a stink)
Even if the performances were exactly the same, it would still get shit because of Snyder, and he'd still probably come up with Eisenberg Lex on a whim (he was going to be CIA Jimmy)
Jonathan Taylor
>Isaiah Mustafa
He could be Mr. Terrific if they went the comedic route and made him Old Spice Guy as a cape
Cameron Kelly
No it was fucking incredible & everything some of us was begging for. Unfortunately nostalgiafags & camp addicts are loud and more numerous..
Austin Wright
I'm okay with this. He's had plenty of action based roles. I wonder if he could bulk up for it.
Matthew Nelson
I've come with these hypothetical Deathstrokes. Gerrard Butler Liam Neeson Brad Pitt
Dylan Morris
>campguy has returned
Thread is ogre, everyone go home.
>No Affleck means no Terrio, for better or worse.
What Terrio did with BvS didn't particularly impress me one way or the other. he seemed far more interested in writing a slow-burning Washington political thriller then anything else.
All i really got out of his stuff in the script was he should really write his own version of State of Play or Three Days of the Condor. He seemed very constrained by the cape stuff, which is when Bravo Snyder really took over.
Kyle Chandler is inexplicably up for like half a dozen juicy roles in big movies now. He's a great actor, but I'm not sure why he's blowing up all of a sudden, I doubt that many people are watching Bloodline.
Julian Price
People like you are the reason DC had to do the new 52 reboot. Shitty Identity Crisis mentality poisoned the well.
Zachary Perez
Butler ducks. Other two are good choices.
Ryder Collins
I couldn't tell which parts were Goyer's and which were Terrio's.
Tyler Jones
Triggered
Ryder Ramirez
Why not T.O. Morrow
Jack Taylor
Oh god i want this so bad.
Cameron Garcia
>Brad Pitt If hardy is too big for the studio too "waste" him on DEATHSTROKE. Then making brad pitt do it, is insane.
Connor Sanders
Be too close to his role on The Knick, I assume.
Colton Campbell
>Josh Brolin as Batman and Olga Kurylenko as Wonder Woman. thank fuck for Affleck and Gadot then
Ethan Phillips
>Goyer
It was the parts that were in the garbage can, user. They re-wrote the entire script.
>Terrio
It really felt like Terrio only cared about the Africa/Senate plotline. Whenever he had to actually write superhero stuff he went to sleep, which is why that's all delivered by Bravo Lord Snyder's "quality" direction and dialogue.
Jackson Garcia
Who the fuck cares about Deathstroke?
Why people like this fag so much?
my nephew said he liked "fast one" best and "shooty one" least in Injusitce, it was nice.
Christopher Russell
>number 1 assassin in the world That's not Lady Shiva
Jace Phillips
Because he's very interesting.
Jeremiah Hughes
He kills people for money and...
Matthew Walker
>Kyle Chandler is inexplicably up for like half a dozen juicy roles in big movies now.
Fantastic news. I want more Coach Taylor in hollywood, but I don't think I want him around superhero movies. Just seems weird.
Elijah King
not really
Nathan Thomas
Sean Bean as Vandal Savage when
Jeremiah Hernandez
Go watch Bloodline senpai-chan. He's incredible on it.
Gavin Johnson
You will. You have to.
Lucas Harris
He's an evil Captain America/Batman with all that entails.
Jose Baker
I'd like to see extremely buffed Edward Norton
Jayden Cox
Here's a radical new idea: IDRIS ELBA as Deathstroke.
Benjamin Kelly
>People like you are the reason DC had to do the new 52 reboot. So? >Shitty Identity Crisis mentality poisoned the well. The new 52 was much much better then Identity Crisis.
Nathan Wilson
Midnighter and his bigger dick.
Dylan Turner
At least he can't die.
Brayden James
The things you're saying in support of the movies make you sound like a person who enjoyed Identity Crisis.
You have shit taste.
Angel Harris
He kills people to fill a void, he's a failure as a human being and killing is the only thing he's good at, and killing is the only thing he has left. He takes contracts for the thrill of it, not the money.
Yes really. More so than most A list cape characters anyway.
Brayden Sanchez
Ought to make him Cap Marvel/Shazam if they can't get Channing Tatum.
James Campbell
It'd be funny if they introduced Midnighter in the DCEU movies.
Can you imagine just how confused the critics would be? They'd want to criticize the movie and the character for the grim and violent aspects, but they'd have to recognize that DCEU introduced a proud gay super-hero in their movies first.
The click-bait articles would be hilarious.
Luis Morales
Makes no sense when it's Marvel with the one-off villains.
William Adams
Cena as Cap or bust
Dominic Bennett
Yes
David Perry
Joe's a likable actor
Even in the grindingly ugly Sabotage he was good. Plus he's friends with Pee Wee He'd be a good death stroke if Lang doesn't want to do it Or even ...Lobo
Dominic Martinez
Mel or statham would be cool picks though then I'd want a solo movie and a teen titans movie
Ryder Young
Fuck. He's done stupid shit that has gotten him in a hole anyone could have predicted, but a Gibson Slade with a little Riggs thrown in could be ridiculously badass.
Jose Reed
Identity Crisis is like Ultimatum its cheap violence, gore and cringyness.
Wanting a mature serious tone and a realistic environment for the characters to believably exist in for the films has nothing to do with that. And that is not good or shit taste, its just a personal preference, I don't enjoy comedies, that doesn't mean the people that do have shit taste.
Adrian Rivera
Statham is horrible
Andrew Carter
He has a cool voice, though.
Nathaniel Lopez
No.
Joseph Lee
Let's go crazy: i pick Jeff Goldblum.
Christian Perry
I don't think you know what maturity or seriousness is if you think the only alternative is nostalgia or camp stuff. Or at least you don't understand why good serious stuff is good and you've latched on to stupid shit.
Connor James
>Kit Harrington What is this meme? I'll tolerate Kit as an Inquisitorial Acolyte in a Warhammer movie, but not as Deathstroke
Elijah Rivera
You're the one that mentioned Identity Crisis, not the guy.
Anthony Ross
I honestly cannot look at him without thinking of Wes Anderson.