Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny filmmaker James Mangold is circling to helm Swamp Thing, Deadline has learned. These are very early talks, nothing locked in stone.
The project is so deep development, there’s no script, we understand per sources. We hear that Mangold is a big fan of Swamp Thing, and has been chasing the feature for a while.
That said DC is stoked about Mangold. The filmmaker has an offer. In unveiling their DC Universe slate Chapter One “Gods and Monsters”, the studio’s co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran didn’t make any director announcements.
This morning, the day after the news of the DC slate broke, Mangold tweeted out a photo from the Swamp Thing comic book which Gunn then re-tweeted.
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