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Matthew Orton is a British writer and producer, who graduated from Magdalen College, the University of Oxford in 2010 with a first in History. His debut feature screenplay, CLEAN, featured on the Brit List. He also won a BBC young writers' competition in 2012. Early in his career, Matt participated in the Guiding Lights feature scheme, mentored by Academy Award-nominated writer Matt Charman, and was named a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ by Screen International. In 2015, Matt sold a spec screenplay to MGM about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This script featured on the Black List and the Brit List in 2016, before being produced and then released in 2018 as the feature Operation Finale, directed by Chris Weitz and with a cast led by Oscar Isaac and Sir Ben Kingsley. Matt’s TV series Devil's Peak, based on Deon Meyer’s acclaimed Benny Griessel novels, is currently in production for MNET, Lookout Point, and Expanded Media. Orton is currently pening additional scenes and material for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World; that will be shot in additional photography, which will take place in spring-summer of 2024.
After the international fallout surrounding Project Starfish in Corto Maltese, A.R.G.U.S. publicly dismantles Task Force X. Hearings are convened. Intelligence oversight tightens. The Suicide Squad becomes a liability no administration wants attached to its name. Behind the curtain, something far quieter begins to move. A secure transmission reaches a select group of operatives. The sender identifies only as Mockingbird. The offer is simple: High compensation. Full deniability. Absolute operational freedom. The recruits are not expendable criminals fitted with bombs. They are elite contractors chosen for precision, intelligence, and psychological resilience. Among them: Deathstroke — the world’s premier mercenary, a battlefield surgeon who treats combat like mathematics. Bane — revolutionary tactician, master strategist, physically overwhelming yet intellectually disciplined. Their objective: Hunt down the surviving members of the Task Force X.
