Hot on the heels of this week’s news that Jared Leto’s Joker was to be a part of the ongoing reshoots for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, now comes word on another rogue who’ll be appearing in this new cut of the 2017 movie.
Via Collider, Joe Manganiello will be turning up in Zack Snyder’s Justice League as Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke.
Manganiello actually did make a super brief appearance in the original theatrical cut of Justice League, with this Deathstroke featured in a post-credits scene alongside Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor.
Previously, there had been rumours that this post-credits scene was actually to be moved to the main cut of the film in Zack Snyder’s Justice League – and that the scene may even be added to. Now we know that we’ll be seeing at least a little more of this iteration of the infamous Deathstroke the Terminator.
Of course, this then throws up questions around whether Eisenberg will be joining Zack Snyder’s reshoots to give his Luthor a meatier presence in this upcoming release.
For Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke, he was originally meant to have a slightly more substantial role in Justice League before then being positioned as the main villain in Ben Affleck’s The Batman. With Affleck to write and direct The Batman, that film ended up ultimately falling apart and then being transitioned into Matt Reeves’ The Batman – complete with Robert Pattinson donning the cape ‘n’ cowl as the Dark Knight.
As part of the reshoots for Zack Snyder’s Justice League – previously referred to as Justice League: The Snyder Cut – Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Amber Heard, and Jared Leto are all filming additional content for Snyder’s vision of Justice League.
If you remember, director Snyder had to step away from Justice League midway through production due to the tragic death of his daughter. From there, Warner Bros. brought in Joss Whedon to oversee the film – although Snyder and Warners were not entirely happy with the final Justice League picture that hit the silver screen in 2017.
Now, Zack Snyder is getting to put the Justice League movie together how he’d originally envisioned it, with Zack Snyder’s Justice League to air on HBO Max next year as four one-hour episodes.
