During San Diego Comic-Con, MTV’s Josh Horowitz asked the actor what he tells fans who want to see more Deathstroke.

“I say, ‘It’s in the works,’ because it is and there’s nothing further that I can say without speaking out of school,” he said, “because I’m part of a team, I’m a part of a locker room — you don’t talk outside the locker room. But all I can say is, for the hardcore fans, it’s in the works. They want the character to happen, it’s just when he happens.”

Manganiello appeared as Deathstroke/Slade in a post-credits sequence for 2017’s Justice League. Appearing before a newly escaped Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), his presence teased the introduction of the Legion of Doom, a comic book-based team of supervillains that would give the bad guys “a league of our own” to fight DC’s heroes.

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Deathstroke was also reportedly going to be a villain for The Batman, an upcoming solo film centered on The Dark Knight, but that film’s fate is clouded by some production hang-ups. When asked about it last year, Manganiello said, “I don’t [have any information]. Well, I do but nothing that I can share. I know everything but I can’t say any of it.”

Then there’s the Deathstroke movie, with The Raid director Gareth Evans having been in early discussions.