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    Joe Manganiello Would Die 'Unhappy' Man If 'Deathstroke' Gets Canceled

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    The ‘Magic Mike’ actor is desperate to get the ‘Deathstroke’ adaptation come to fruition following multiple setbacks, insisting it would be really a shame if the movie is canned because fans deserve to see it.

    Mar 26, 2021

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    Actor Joe Manganiello would die an “unhappy” man if his long-gestating “Deathstroke” movie never comes to light.

    The “Magic Mike” star portrays the supervillain Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in the DC Extended Universe, and he hopes plans for a standalone film eventually do come to fruition – because it’s what the fans deserve.

    Joe, whose character features in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, said, “You know all of that – all of these tracks (for the Deathstroke movie) have been laid down.”

    “So you know, it’s all there and I think it would really be a shame if the fans never got to see that. I would go to my grave unhappy.”

    A number of previously planned projects featuring Deathstroke have been axed over the years, and Joe revealed he was so frustrated about not getting the green light, he even decided to write his own Deathstroke origin story.

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    He told Comicbook.com, “The studio was very much enthralled by all of the research that I was doing. I was starting to build the character out and pitch them ideas and I built a back story.”

    “I wanted Deathstroke to be human and grounded so I started with, you know, he was part of the American military.”

    The project never materialised after Warner Bros. chiefs scrapped the idea, something that Joe laments after the success of the Todd Phillips movie “Joker”, which earned Joaquin Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar last year (20).

    He previously explained, “It was not seen as a priority to make a $40 million movie about a villain origin story in which you show the backstory.”

    “That would never work! That would never make a billion dollars and get someone an Oscar. Never!”

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      Joe Manganiello Annoyed as 'Deathstroke' Is Not Seen as Priority After Numerous Setbacks

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      The former ‘True Blood’ actor has been left frustrated by multiple delays in the Warner Brothers attempt to bring DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson the big screen.

      Mar 13, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Joe Manganiello has been left frustrated over his struggle to play DC Comics supervillain Deathstroke on the big screen after having project after project cancelled.
      The actor is set to appear in the role as the DC Extended Universe villain and his alter ego Slade Wilson in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, but revealed his exasperation that previous attempts to fit the character into the universe – such as in the “Suicide Squad” sequel – never materialised.
      Joe explained, “There were like, four or five different versions of Suicide Squad 2 that I was put on hold for.”
      “(We were) waiting for one actor to free up and we were gonna go. That happened like, four or five times and never came to fruition… There was a Zak Penn script; then there was the Gavin (O’Connor) version; there was a version with Will Smith, without Will Smith; there was just me and Will Smith. It just went on and on.”

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      The “Magic Mike” star also revealed that a planned origin project that he had written for Deathstroke was cancelled by Warner Bros. bosses, as he made a sarcastic reference to the acclaimed Todd Phillips film “Joker”, which won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar at last year’s (20) ceremony.
      Joe told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, “It was not seen as a priority to make a $40 million movie about a villain origin story in which you show the backstory. That would never work! That would never make a billion dollars and get someone an Oscar. Never!”
      Deathstroke will appear with a different haircut in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, which premieres on U.S. streaming service HBO Max next week (18Mar21), and Joe revealed that he came up with the idea to shave the supervillain’s head and leave him with a white mohawk.
      Joe said, “Part of living with the character for four years, thinking maybe around the next bend you’re gonna get to play him, you can’t help but percolate.”
      “In the treatment I wrote, the standalone, at the end of the film, I always envisioned him shaving his head into some kind of war-like, almost borderline suicide mission (style). I explained that to Zack and he said, ‘Great, let’s do it.’ ”

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