Joe Manganiello made a brief appearance at the end of “Justice League” as super-villain Deathstroke, and was to have appeared in the standalone Batman movie that Ben Affleck was to direct while reprising the role of the Dark Knight.
As fans well know, Affleck walked away from the project, with Warner Bros. going in a completely different direction by casting Robert Pattinson in “The Batman”, currently in production with director Matt Reeves at the helm.
In a new interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, Manganiello shared some details about the aborted Batman flick. “It was a really dark story in which Deathstroke was like a shark or a horror movie villain that was dismantling Bruce’s life from the inside out.
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