Joe Manganiello talks "canceled" Deathstroke appearances in Justice League 2, Batman, and Suicide Squad 2

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In a surprising move, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder's Justice League brought back Joe Manganiello'✱s Deathstroke for a Knightmarish epilogue. The character sported a white mohawk and was, in a strange twist, working with Batman rather than against him.

Although Manganiello has been attached to the Deathstroke role for years, his version of the character has only appeared in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Justice League. There were, the actor explains in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new issue of SFX magazine, meant to be many, many more, but the💖y have nearly all fallen out of view.

"It went from my Batman movie being canceled to negotiations with Gareth Evans for a 'Deathstroke Origins' fꦓilm being canceled," he says. "I worked for six months with an Oscar-nominated writer on the pitch and the outline for that project. That was six months of my life I spent on this thing that got canceledꦛ. 

"Then they altered my [Justice League] scene with Lex Luthor in post. They did ADR with Jesse Eisenberg to tease a Justice League 2 that was going to be the Injustice League: that got canceled. There was a version of Suicide Squad 2 that got canceled. There was talk of a Deathstroke/Deadshot movie. That was dead in the water. Then there was mention of Deathstroke showing up in other films that didn’t 🦄happen. At some point, you just have to let it go!"

Manganiello has recently been verbal about the canceled Deathstroke plans, going into details about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ben Affleck's Batman movie, which would have pitted Bruce Wayne against the villain. The Warner Bros. CEO recently said that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Snyder Cut will 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:not lead to any future Snyder-verꦑse pไrojects – but stꦬranger things have happened in the DCEU.

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