Joe Manganiello was never meant to be in, not the version released in theaters in 2017 nor the original vision that became. «A lot of people don't realize I actually wasn't technically a part of the original ,» he tells ET's Nischelle Turner. «I was cast in Ben Affleck's to play the villain, and we shot a scene to tease our mashup that was going to appear at the end of the film.»When Affleck was set to direct and star in his own standalone film, he tapped Manganiello to play DC's deadliest assassin, Deathstroke.
The scene he shot saw the actor suited up as Deathstroke and meeting with Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, who revealed to him Bruce Wayne's secret identity. «Now, that movie did not happen,» Manganiello explains.
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