Batman villains Bane and Deathstroke are getting movie treatment at DC Studios (exclusive).

DC is working on some back-breaking development to bring these villains to the big screen.
A few other DC villains are being highlighted with a big-budget Joker film just weeks away and a newly released Penguin HBO series on demand.

According to sources, lassoing together for a film are Bane, the super-steroid-injecting adversary from the 2012 Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight Rises, and Deathstroke, another well-liked archnemesis in the comic book firm. Developing a script from Matthew Orton, a scribe on the forthcoming Captain America: Brave New World film, is James Gunn and Peter Safran-led DC Studios.

The effort does not have a director.
Originally created in the early 1990s by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Graham Nolan, Bane is a quite recent addition to Batman’s rogues gallery.

Born and nurtured in a prison on a fictional Caribbean island, the character was able to not only refine his basic fighting techniques but also learn lessons from all kinds of foreign offenders. Later, he was the target of a horrifying steroidal test, an experiment that left him very strong but also hooked to serums.

The character established his name in an epic narrative called “Knightfall,” in which he viciously broke Batman’s back, launching him into Bat-villain’s top ranks. Numerous computer games and TV shows feature this figure, who was most famously represented by a muted Tom Hardy in the last Nolan Batman trilogy episode, The Dark Knight Rises.

Originally presented in 1980 as a top-tier villain for the Teen Titans, the super-enhanced master assassin evolved to become one of DC’s most well-known bad men, fighting Batman and the Justice League and fronting multiple times his own comic book series.

Designed by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez, the character—which Esai Morales portrayed in the current live-action Titans series—while Joe Manganiello cameoed as the one-eyed killer in some of Zack Snyder’s DC films has appeared in video games and animated fare.

Back then, when Ben Affleck was directing and acting, he was going to be the villain of The Batman. Another time he got hooked to a Deathstroke film directed by Gareth Evans.

On the film side, DC and Warner Bros. have had great success stressing antagonists. With filmmaker Todd Phillips’s original interpretation of The Clown Prince of Crime driving the film to a $1 billion box office and Oscar gold for actor Joaquin Phoenix and composer Hildur Gudnadóttir, Joker is the most well-known of instances. Opening Oct. 4, the sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux debuted at the Venice Film Festival.

Leading The Penguin, a spinoff from Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The Batman, Colin Farrell is aired on HBO on September 19, the eight-episode series has received positive ratings.

Antiheroine Harley Quinn found has been portrayed by Margot Robbie in a trio of films, including the 2021 Gunn-directed The Suicide Squad, which proved a great combo for both character and actress.
It is difficult, though, to create a feature viewers would want to sit through by including villains and making them appealing enough. Naturally, the first stage is the writing.

Orton’s resume is full of grounded, gritty work involving killers and offenders. His first credit authoring operation, the real-life drama recounting the scheme to apprehend Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, Chris Weitz oversaw the Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley starring film.

He also produced the DSTV serial killer crime miniseries Devil’s Peak from South Africa and had Clive Owen and Daisy Ridley feature in the can in a hostage thriller called Cleaner. Marvel’s Moon Knight TV show gave him credit, and the firm invited him back in to write terrorism-related reshoots for Captain America: Brave New World. The film debuts on February 14, 2025.