BLUE BEETLE Director Reveals Who He'd Cast As BANE If The Movie Ever Happens As Part Of DCU

BLUE BEETLE Director Reveals Who He'd Cast As BANE If The Movie Ever Happens As Part Of DCU

It's no secret that Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto hoped to make a Bane movie for DC, and the filmmaker has now revealed who he would cast in the role if the project ever becomes a reality...

By JoshWilding - Aug 14, 2023 05:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto has said on multiple occasions that he pitched a Bane movie to Warner Bros. before being offered the opportunity to tell Jaime Reyes' story in what was originally a Max movie set in the DCEU.

Plans changed when David Zaslav took charge of Warner Bros. Discovery, and Blue Beetle will now be released theatrically this weekend. 

Should it prove to be a success, then there's a chance we'll see Jamie's story continue in a sequel, especially as DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has already confirmed Blue Beetle is part of the DCU. However, that Bane project is one Soto remains keen to revisit. 

"Well, look, when I had conceived that idea, I had no one in mind," he says of casting the iconic Batman villain. "But suddenly Dave Bautista came out to say that he wants to do it and I went, 'This is an obvious choice, yes.'"

"And I had the chance to meet him. He saw Blue Beetle, and he loved it and so I said okay if they let me do Bane...you're my Bane."

That's not a decision which will ultimately be Soto's to make, and even Bautista has acknowledged he might now be too old to play the character. Earlier this year, the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star said, "I just don't know if I could handle the physical part, and I don't think I would have the longevity to plan ahead for films."

We'll see what happens, but there will be plenty of fans who are 100% on board with Soto's hopes to cast Bautista in the role. Previously, the filmmaker said he used many of his ideas for Bane in Blue Beetle as part of Carapax's story, so it's unclear how serious he is about making this villain-led project.

Do you think the Drax actor is the right choice to bring Bane to life in the DCU?

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Origame
Origame - 8/14/2023, 5:34 AM
For the love of God, shut up about your bane movie that's never gonna happen. No one wants to see you spend 2 hours justifying a man traveling across the world and plotting to break the back of someone who never knew or did anything wrong to him.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 8/14/2023, 6:05 AM
@Origame - ever heard of the Slave trades? Multiply this xs 100 million, and you get that. I digress...

Make this Bane a henchman for the underground South American mafias.




He is a perfectionist, who is known to execute with pinpoint accuracy and extreme prejudice.

He travels to Gotham, due to a pre-paid in full job for the Falcone family. His sole objective:

Neutralize The Batman.

Bane does what he does best, tracking down the caped crusader after a few weeks. Upon his first encounter, he is defeated with little difficulty.



This sends him into an obsession.

He is like Jordan in the Piston era.







What arises is a madman, who has utilized every outlet to create a citywide manhunt for the vigilante.





His only goal: Tear down Batman by all means, then break him.

Operation: Knightfall
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/14/2023, 6:23 AM
@Origame - To be fair, in Knightfall Bane didn't have any personal grudge against Batman. He just wanted to take over Gotham and knew that he couldn't do it until Batman was out of the way. So he made that his number 1 goal. Take out Batman. Then no one can stop him.
MochaKing
MochaKing - 8/14/2023, 6:58 AM
@CorndogBurglar - Take out Batman for dinner and wine... And see where it goes... May get into 3rd base on first date itself
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/14/2023, 7:40 AM
@Origame - It was the bat that haunted his dreams, in Vengeance of Bane. The same Bat that haunted the dreams of Amadeus Arkham and his mother, in A Serious House on Serious Earth. And the same Bat that haunted the dreams of Marth Wayne/Arkham, in Batman Earth One. And possibly the same Bat that inspired Bruce Wayne, in The Dark Knight Returns.

They almost made Bane the son of Thomas Wayne at one point, which would connect all of these people with the same genetic predisposition to hallucinate giant terrifying Bat creatures.
Origame
Origame - 8/14/2023, 7:46 AM
@ObserverIO - yeah I know. The point is, though, batman didn't do anything to bane. And this director wants to make it so bane is the victim. Something even the creator of bane had to say was nonsense.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/14/2023, 7:54 AM
@Origame - That is nonsense. Bane was in a prison his whole life. How could Batman have done anything to him?
Origame
Origame - 8/14/2023, 8:09 AM
@ObserverIO - exactly. He just fell in love with the idea bane is Latino and wanted him portrayed as a misunderstood anti hero.
dragon316
dragon316 - 8/14/2023, 9:34 AM
@Origame - is t that same as kraven in comics ? Similar situation
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 8/15/2023, 3:06 PM
@VictorAlonzo - nice fan fic, now shut up
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 8/15/2023, 4:02 PM
@RegularPoochie -
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 8/15/2023, 9:01 PM
@VictorAlonzo - 😂
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 8/14/2023, 6:01 AM
Pass!

If he was a man mountain and a lot younger then someone like Javier Bardem would be perfect imo.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 8/15/2023, 3:07 PM
@TheClunges - i like that
Scarilian
Scarilian - 8/14/2023, 7:19 AM
His Blue Beetle movie is going to be a box office bomb, then he'll blame the fans and fade into obscurity.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/14/2023, 7:27 AM
He’s very interested in a movie he’s never going to make; or anyone may not make for that matter.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 8/14/2023, 7:43 AM
Bautista would be better suited to Hugo Strange, imo.
BobGarlen
BobGarlen - 8/14/2023, 9:43 AM
I thought people (rightfully) wanted a Latino actor as Bane? Bautista is ancestrally Greek and Filipino. Plus, I would much rather see him take a role like Darkseid, it would be more of a challenge, acting wise, and given his performances in Dune and Blade Runner 2049, I think he could pull it off.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 8/14/2023, 3:07 PM
I don't want the director of Dung beetle anywhere near Batman or his rogues gallery, and from the looks of it, thankfully he never will be.
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