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The rumours have been rife about Ben Affleck’s solo movie.
First, it emerged that fan-favourite DC villain Deathstroke was being considered for the “big bad” of the movie. Then, it was rumoured that Joe Manganiello (of True Blood, Magic Mike and Spider-Man fame) would take the role.
Today it’s official folks: Joe Manganiello has been confirmed to play Deathstroke.
The first announcement was hidden in plain sight. Recently, Ben Affleck shared test footage of Deathstroke in action. A lot of people assumed it was from the forthcoming Justice League movie, but they were wrong. It was test footage from Affleck’s solo Batman Movie and apparently it was actually Joe Manganiello in costume.
You can check it out right here:
— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) August 29, 2016
The official announcement came from The Wall Street Journal.
DC Entertainment president and chief creative officer Geoff Johns confirmed the casting in his first interview discussing his new role overseeing Warner Bros.’ movies based on DC Comics characters.
Geoff Johns declined to comment of whether Deathstroke would appear in the Justice League movie.
Pretty cool, right?
Deathstroke AKA Slade Wilson has had many different origins in many forms of media. In the officially comic book Deathstroke origin (according to Wikipedia):
Slade Wilson was sixteen years old when he first enlisted in the United States Army, having lied about his age. After serving a stint in Korea, he was later assigned to Camp Washington where he had been promoted to the rank of Major. In the early 1960s, he met Captain Adeline Kane who was tasked with training young soldiers in new fighting techniques in anticipation of brewing troubles taking place in Vietnam. Kane was amazed at how skilled Slade was and how quickly he adapted to modern conventions of warfare. She immediately fell in love with him, and realized that he was without a doubt the most able-bodied combatant she had ever encountered. She offered to privately train Slade in guerrilla warfare. In less than a year, Slade mastered every fighting form presented to him and was soon promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Six months later, Adeline and he were married and she became pregnant with their first child. The war in Vietnam began to escalate and Slade was shipped overseas. In the war, his unit massacred a village, an event which sickened him. He was also rescued by SAS member Wintergreen, to whom he would later return the favor.
Chosen for a secret experiment, the Army imbued him with enhanced physical powers in an attempt to create meta human super soldiers for the U.S. military. Deathstroke became a mercenary soon after the experiment when he defied orders and rescued his friend Wintergreen sent on a suicide mission by a commanding officer with a grudge.[1] However, Slade kept this career secret from his family, even though his wife was an expert military combat instructor.
A criminal named the Jackal took his younger son Joseph Wilson hostage to force Slade to divulge the name of a client who had hired him as an assassin. Slade refused, claiming it was against his personal honor code. He attacked and killed the kidnappers at the rendezvous. Unfortunately, Joseph’s throat was slashed by one of the criminals before Slade could prevent it, destroying Joseph’s vocal cords and rendering him mute.
After taking Joseph to the hospital, his wife Adeline Wilson was enraged at his endangerment of her son and tried to kill Slade by shooting him, but only managed to destroy his right eye. Afterward, his confidence in his physical abilities was such that he made no secret of his impaired vision, marked by his mask which has a black, featureless half covering his lost eye. Without his mask, Slade wears an eye-patch.
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