Bane and Deathstroke Movie in the Works at DC Studios From Writer Matthew Orton

Capt. America: According to an insider with knowledge of the project, Matthew Orton, the writer of "Brave New World," has been chosen to write a Bane and Deathstroke movie for DC Studios.

The forthcoming film currently lacks a director.

Marv Wolfman and George Perez were the creators of the Deathstroke series. He first made an appearance in the 1980 issue of "New Teen Titans" #2 as a mercenary and assassin. He was ranked the 24th greatest villain of all time by Wizard magazine.

Deathstroke was named the 32nd greatest comic book villain by IGN in 2009. The greatest assassin in all of DC Comics is known as Deathstroke, also known as Deathstroke the Terminator or simply Slade.

Deathstroke's story was that he took over a contract to kill the Teen Titans after his son died from his own superhuman enhancements. He was supposed to be a one-off villain for the team. Instead, he became one of the Titans' most frequent foes because he was so well received.

DC gave the character his own series in 1991, in which he fought Batman for the first time. The character gained so much popularity. Deathstroke uses brutal, Punisher-like strategies to pursue a Gotham City mob boss in the four-part series "City of Assassins." This gives Deathstroke a more antiheroic bent. Deathstroke defeats Batman in combat as a result of his pursuit, which sends him into collision with Batman. In order to catch a masked assassin who killed one of Commissioner Gordon's men, the two later form an uneasy alliance.

Gareth Evans, the director of "The Raid," was in talks with a previous DC administration to write and direct a standalone "Deathstroke" movie, but the deal never happened. Joe Mangianello was supposed to play Deathstroke in the DC films that Zack Snyder was making before they were remade and ended up being cancelled. In the animated series "Teen Titans Go," he played the Titans' main antagonist, and on "Arrow," on the CW, he played Green Arrow's main antagonist.

In the world of comics, Bane is a powerful crime lord who spent his childhood and early adulthood in a South American prison, sentenced by proxy to life imprisonment for the actions of his father, a revolutionary leader. Bane was created by Chuck Dixon, Graham Nolan, and Dennis O'Neil and debuted in 1993.

After surviving his brutal upbringing and ascending to the position of "King" of the prison, Bane was eventually required to test positive for a drug known as "venom." He received extraordinary strength and other abilities from Venom, but at a high cost: He will become incapacitated if he does not take the medication every 12 hours.

In the end, Bane got out of the prison and went to Gotham City. He wore a costume that made him look like a huge luchador wrestler, but his mask helps hide how he injected venom. He is best known for the 1993–94 "Knightfall" storyline, in which he rescues Batman from Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison after freeing Gotham's villains.

Pro wrestler Robert "Jeep" Swenson played Bane in the 1997 film "Batman and Robin," which was the first live-action version of the character. Tom Hardy played Bane in the 2012 film "The Dark Knight Rises," which was loosely based on the "Knightfall" storyline. Following criticism of director Christopher Nolan's decision not to provide Bane with clearer lines in the sound mix, the portrayal led to the fad of the muffled Bane.

WME, Grandview, and Johnson Shapiro represent Orton.