The next DC live-action film on the way is “Blue Beetle” opening next month, a film directed by “Charm City Kings” helmer Angel Manuel Soto who signed on for the project a few years back.
It turns out that’s not the DC film Soto had in mind around the time he got hired. In a recent interview with Den of Geek, Soto says revealed that he wanted to pitch ideas to the studio with one of them being a “Bane origin story”.
That film would’ve looked into the iconic Batman villain, an escaped convict from an island prison in South America who has intelligence and abnormal physical strength as a result of having undergone experiments involving a derivative of the drug Venom.
The character remains most famous for crippling Batman by breaking his spine over his knee in the epic storyline ‘Knightfall’. Speaking about why he wanted to tackle that character, he tells the outlet: “I always thought that there was something interesting in exploring his reality and how a character like that comes to be.”
He then quickly found out from the studio that “the conversation was not about that,” rather they wanted him to handle the young Latino superhero character Blue Beetle.
Bane has previously appeared in animated form several times, and twice in live-action – in a supporting role in “Batman & Robin,” and played by Tom Hardy in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”.
“Blue Beetle” opens in cinemas on August 18th.
