Teased in Deathstroke in the post-credits scene of Justice league version Joss whedon, Joe manganiello was one of the great sacrifices of the monumental bide of the cinema version of the team’s film DC Comics and backpedaling of the Warner about the DC Extended Universe. Rather than making a MCU bis, DC will produce hybrid projects between the semi-continuity of the universe (Aquaman 2, Wonder Woman 3, The Flash), and projects totally outside this narration (The Batman, Joker 2?). Before the huge fiasco Justice League, there had to be a rather enticing project on paper that was intended for the big screen: a movie Deathstroke, headed by Gareth evans, the filmmaker behind the violent The Raid.
Near Yahoo Movies UK, the filmmaker had, at the time, exposed his vision of the film in question which could have been very violent and unprecedented in the landscape of the DCEU, as Joker by Todd Philips could have been before him:
“I was actually quite excited and excited about [Deathstroke] back then, when this was first presented to me. I met them and talked to them about it [Warner Bros], and I was definitely attached to it at one point. I spoke to Joe Manganiello, who was the star of the film as Deathstroke. I spoke to him a while ago and we both lamented the fact that the movie didn’t happen. We had some ideas on what kind of style we would have chosen with this, which would have matched some of the more entrenched styles I have. [donc très proche des films The Raid], but because of the world, it would allow me to be a little more flamboyant and a little more stylized. We could have taken it from some really interesting points of view… We had some pretty daring ideas there that could have been really visceral and really fun. “
Since, Joe manganiello came back in Deathstroke on the occasion of some additional shots for the Justice League Snyder Cut, supervised by Zack Snyder but has since accepted the sentence to put his suit in the closet for good. That’s what he implied during an interview with Coming Soon where he was asked if he would be seen in the future again in the costume:
“No, I dropped that awhile ago. “
It is no longer an open secret that Warner and DC Films will now try to move away from the “Snyderverse” to offer something else, with a catalog of productions already well stocked, even if it means making a few sacrifices of characters like here …
