By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Gotham is putting out the Bat-signal for Shane West: The Nikita alum will recur as a villain in the upcoming fifth and final season of Fox‘s Batman prequel, according to our sister site Deadline.
West will play Eduardo Dorrance, who served alongside Jim Gordon in the Army. Dorrance returns to Gotham and offers to help Gordon bring law and order to the crime-ridden metropolis with a team of elite soldiers. But Gordon soon realizes that “Dorrance’s true intentions in Gotham are much darker and more evil than he could have believed.”
In the comics, Edmund (not “Eduardo”) Dorrance is the infamous villain King Snake, who’s the father of super villain Bane. So West’s character could end up being King Snake… or even Bane, if Gotham decides to bring out the full “rogues gallery” for its final run of episodes, which is set for midseason. (Tom Hardy played the super-strong Bane in the big-screen Bat film The Dark Knight Rises.)
Shooting to fame as a young actor on ABC’s Once and Again and in films like A Walk to Remember, West played doctor Ray Barnett on NBC’s long-running medical drama ER before starring as operative Michael Bishop on The CW’s Nikita for its entire four-season run. More recently, he starred as John Alden in WGN’s supernatural drama Salem, which was cancelled last year after three seasons.
King Snake indeed! Love Shane West!!
Gorham is the best. Still hoping they expand its final season and the show hitss the 100 so milestone.
I miss Nikita! Was one of the better shows on the CW back then. The show could of lasted a lot longer.
Just seeing “Nikita” in the headline makes my heart skip a beat. I miss that show SO much. I’ve been wishing for a movie ever since the series finale — I always thought it would be really interesting if Amanda escaped.
Yes!! Being a huge fan of Nikita, I wish they could find some way to reboot the show again! Amanda was such a badass villain and was just awesome on that show!
Glad Shane will be on the show in the final season. He’s a such a good actor. Looking forward to see him on the show next year.
Makes sense that they would set up the Bane story line with their last season – that’s sort of the last big piece of the mythos they hadn’t tackled yet.
Off the top of my head, the only other classic villains I don’t think they’ve used are Deadshot (who already exists in the movies and in the Arrowverse), and The Ventriloquist (who is maybe a bit too weird in live action). Killer Croc and Man-Bat have maybe appeared, though they may not be the “official” versions.