Just a day after the undertaking was formally introduced, it appears to be like like Swamp Thing already has a director.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Mangold is in “early talks” to helm the brand new DC Universe’s Swamp Thing. The movie was among the many first 5 titles in “Chapter 1” (also referred to as “Gods and Monsters”) of the relaunched DC Studios universe from James Gunn and Peter Safran. Per THR, “Mangold is said to be a massive fan of the character and the stories. According to sources, he approached Gunn and Safran with his ideas. Swamp Thing would be a few years away, however, and Mangold’s next project after Dial of Destiny will be a Bob Dylan biopic for Paramount.”
Mangold strongly teased his involvement within the undertaking early Wednesday, when he tweeted this pic of Swamp Thing by well-known artist Bernie Wrightson.
In the official press launch for the brand new DC Universe, Warner Bros. described the Swamp Thing movie as a story of the character’s “dark origins.” That would definitely align with Mangold’s pursuits. He beforehand made two pretty darkish comic-book motion pictures for Fox: The Wolverine and Logan. He‘s currently directing the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
This will be Swamp Thing’s third movie, following two comparatively low-budget horror footage within the Nineteen Eighties. (The first one, directed by a younger Wes Craven, is definitely fairly good.) He was most not too long ago tailored because the star of a streaming TV collection that was out there on the short-lived DC Universe service. When the service was folded into HBO Max, most of its programming shifted over there, however at the moment the Swamp Thing present shouldn’t be out there there.
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All the initiatives introduced by DC Studios as the beginning of “Chapter 1” of the corporate’s new universe of films and exhibits.
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