It is safe to say that besides Wonder Woman and Aquaman, all previous plans created by Zack Snyder are dead in the water. That includes Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke, which only got a small cameo at the end of Justice League. The standalone film that was to be directed by Gareth Evans seems to be categorized under “films that never got to be made”.
That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. In a recent interview, Evans talked about the Deathstroke movie and what it would have entailed:
“I was actually quite enthused and excited about [Deathstroke] back in the day, when it was first pitched to me,” Evans said. “I met with them, and talked to them about it, and was certainly attached to it at a certain point.” Now that the DCEU seems to be going in a different direction, the chances of Joe Manganiello reprising the role in a future DC movie looks slim, and Evans said that he spoke with the actor a while back to lament on the fact that the movie didn’t happen. As far as what type of film the Deathstroke movie would have been, Evans said it would have been a lean and mean origin story.
The plan was, I wanted to tell something that would be a lean story, that would be kind of an origin of that character. Something that felt like it could be 100 minutes or 110 minutes long, max – not to go over the two hour period with it… Back then, I was massively influenced by the noir films coming out of South Korea, so that was my pitch. I was like, these films are amazing: the texture, and the tones of colours, the grit and the aggression of them is super interesting to use to tell Deathstroke’s story.”
The Raid’s director also touched upon the tight choreography we would have seen if the film had been made:
“We had ideas of the kind of style that we would have gone for with that, which would have married some of the more grounded styles that I have,” Evans said, “but then because of the world of it, it would allow me to be a bit more flamboyant and a bit more stylized. We could have taken it in some really interesting areas. We had some pretty bold ideas there that could have been really visceral and really fun.” Oh, what could have been.”
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Source: JoBlo
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